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    Hot Planet: With linked Table of Contents
    Hot Planet: With linked Table of Contents
    Hot Planet: With linked Table of Contents
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    Hot Planet: With linked Table of Contents

    By Hal Clement

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    A team of scientists are sent to Mercury aboard the Albireo to find out why it's developing an atmosphere. A series of events force the scientists out of their ship and onto the surface of Mercury, where only their courage and intelligence can keep them alive. Clement paints a tense and completely believable image of Mercury. He was simply one of the best hard science fiction writers the field ever produced.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 5, 2016
    ISBN9781515403661
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      Hot Planet - Hal Clement

      Hot Planet

      by Hal Clement

      Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / Ig0rZh

      Positronic Publishing

      PO Box 632

      Floyd VA 24091

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-0366-1

      First Positronic Publishing Edition

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Table of Contents

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      I

      The wind which had nearly turned the Albireo’s landing into a disaster instead of a mathematical exercise was still playing tunes about the fins and landing legs as Schlossberg made his way down to Deck Five.

      The noise didn’t bother him particularly, though the endless seismic tremors made him dislike the ladders. But just now he was able to ignore both. He was curious—though not hopeful.

      Is there anything at all obvious on the last sets of tapes, Joe?

      Mardikian, the geophysicist, shrugged. Just what you’d expect ... on a planet which has at least one quake in each fifty-mile-square area every five minutes. You know yourself we had a nice seismic program set up, but when we touched down we found we couldn’t carry it out. We’ve done our best with the natural tremors—incidentally stealing most of the record tapes the other projects would have used. We have a lot of nice information for the computers back home; but it will take all of them to make any sense out of it.

      Schlossberg nodded; the words had not been necessary. His astronomical program had been one of those sabotaged by the transfer of tapes to the seismic survey.

      I just hoped, he said. We each have an idea why Mercury developed an atmosphere during the last few decades, but I guess the high school kids on Earth will know whether it’s right before we do. I’m resigned to living in a chess-type universe—few and simple rules, but infinite combinations of them. But it would be nice to know an answer sometime.

      So it would. As a matter of fact, I need to know a couple right now. From you. How close to finished are the other programs—or what’s left of them?

      I’m all set, replied Schlossberg. I have a couple of instruments still monitoring the sun just in case, but everything in the revised program is on tape.

      Good. Tom, any use asking you?

      The biologist grimaced. I’ve been shown two hundred and sixteen different samples of rock and dust. I have examined in detail twelve crystal growths which looked vaguely like vegetation. Nothing was alive or contained living things by any standards I could conscientiously set.

      Mardikian’s gesture might have meant sympathy.

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