Title: Mission of Gravity

Title: Mission of Gravity Title Record # 1511
Author: Hal Clement
Date: 1954-01-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Mesklin
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Synopsis: The planet Mesklin is a vast cold inhospitable world, with a crushing gravity 700 times greater than Earth. Mesklin holds secrets of great value, and only the tiny Mesklinites can help mankind discover them.

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Serializations

Translated Serializations

Year	Language	Title
1959^ⓘTranslated by Günter Hehemann.	German	Unternehmen Schwerkraft
1968^ⓘTranslated by Wulf H. Bergner	German	Unternehmen Schwerkraft
1971^ⓘTranslated by Paul Halliwell	Dutch	Een zaak van gewicht
1971^ⓘTranslated by Pierre Versins & Martine Renaud	French	Question de poids
1972^ⓘTranslated by С. Бережков (S. Berezhkov), a pseudonym used by Аркадий Стругацкий.	Russian	Экспедиция "Тяготение"^?Ekspeditsiya "Tyagotenie" [as by Хол Клемент^?Hol Klement ]
1978^ⓘTranslated by Borbás Mária, 1978	Hungarian	Az elveszett rakéta
1982^ⓘFirst unabridged German edition. Translated by Peter Pape The 2014 publication is stated as revised (by an uncredited hand).	German	Unternehmen Schwerkraft
1982^ⓘTranslated by Pierre Versins & Martine Renaud	French	Mission Gravité
1987^ⓘTranslated by Tom Arno	Italian	Stella doppia 61 Cygni
1993^ⓘTranslated by Carlos Gardini	Spanish	Misión de gravedad
2001^ⓘTranslation of Mission of Gravity into the Turkish. Translated by Ardan Tüzünsoy	Turkish	Aǧır görev^?Agir gorev
2010^ⓘTranslated by Giorgio Monicelli	Italian	Stella doppia 61 Cygni

Year	Title
1953	Mission of Gravity (Part 1 of 4)
1953	Mission of Gravity (Part 2 of 4)
1953	Mission of Gravity (Part 3 of 4)
1953	Mission of Gravity (Part 4 of 4)

Year	Language	Title
1954^ⓘTranslated by Tom Arno	Italian	Stella Doppia 61 Cygni (Complete Novel)

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	1955 IFA	Fiction
16	1975 Locus	All-Time Best Novel
36	1987 Locus	All-Time Best SF Novel
1 (as Misión de gravedad)	1994 Premio Ignotus	Mejor novela extranjera - Best Foreign Novel
37	1998 Locus	All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990
3	2004 Retro Hugo	Best Novel

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Astounding Science Fiction, April 1953	1953-04-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Street & Smith Publications, Inc.		$0.35	172	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Van Dongen
Astounding Science Fiction, May 1953	1953-05-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Street & Smith Publications, Inc.		$0.35	164	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Baer
Astounding Science Fiction, June 1953	1953-06-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Street & Smith Publications, Inc.		$0.35	172	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Lee Correy
Astounding Science Fiction, July 1953	1953-07-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Street & Smith Publications, Inc.		$0.35	172	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Miller
Astounding Science Fiction, September 1953 (UK)	1953-09-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd		9d	68	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag	Van Dongen
Astounding Science Fiction, October 1953 (UK)	1953-10-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd		-/9	64	pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75	mag
Astounding Science Fiction, November 1953 (UK)	1953-11-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd		1/6	132	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Correy
Astounding Science Fiction, December 1953 (UK)	1953-12-00	ed. John W. Campbell, Jr.	Atlas Publishing and Distribution Co. Ltd		1/6	128	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Miller
Mission of Gravity	1954-01-00	Hal Clement	Doubleday		$2.95	224	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Jean Morton
Mission of Gravity	1954-06-00	Hal Clement	Doubleday / SFBC		$1.15	224	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Jean Morton
I Romanzi di Urania #59	1954-10-20	ed. Giorgio Monicelli	Mondadori	59	130 Lit	128	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Curt Caesar
Mission of Gravity	1955-00-00	Hal Clement	Robert Hale		9/6	192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Mission of Gravity	1958-00-00	Hal Clement	Galaxy Publishing Corp. (Galaxy Science Fiction Novel #33)	33	$0.35	191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Wallace A. Wood
Unternehmen Schwerkraft	1959-02-20	Hal Clement	Moewig (Terra Sonderband #12)	TSB12	DM 1.00	96	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	novel	Karl Stephan
Mission of Gravity	1962-10-00	Hal Clement	Pyramid Books	F-786	$0.40	174	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Ed Emshwiller
Mission of Gravity	1963-07-00	Hal Clement	Penguin Books	1978	3/6	200	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Yves Tanguy
Unternehmen Schwerkraft	1968-06-00	Hal Clement	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3121)	3121	DM 2.40	159	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Karl Stephan
Mission of Gravity	1969-08-00	Hal Clement	Pyramid Books	T-2063	$0.75	174	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	John Schoenherr
Een zaak van gewicht	1971-00-00	Hal Clement	Meulenhoff (M=SF #45)	90-290-0251-4		191	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Erik Zwierd
Question de poids	1971-01-25	Hal Clement	Robert Laffont (Ailleurs et demain)			270	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Экспедиция "Тяготение"^?Ekspeditsiya "Tyagotenie"	1972-00-00	Хол Клемент^?Hol Klement	Мир^?Mir ( Зарубежная фантастика^?Zarubezhnaia fantastika Zarubezhnaya fantastika )			360	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	omni
Mission of Gravity	1974-10-00	Hal Clement	Pyramid Books	0-515-03479-7 / N3479	$0.95	174	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Mission of Gravity	1974-10-00	Hal Clement	Pyramid Books	0-515-03479-7 / N3479	C$0.95	174	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Question de poids	1975-00-00	Hal Clement	Edito-Service (Les chefs-d'œuvre de la science fiction)			xiii+ 266	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Mission of Gravity	1976-06-00	Hal Clement	New English Library (NEL SF Master Series)	0-450-02994-8	£0.60	192	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Bruce Pennington
Urania #734	1977-10-23	ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini	Mondadori	734	700 Lit	156	digest^?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".	mag	Karel Thole
Az elveszett rakéta	1978-00-00	Hal Clement	Kozmosz Könyvek^?Kozmosz Konyvek ( Kozmosz Fantasztikus Könyvek^?Kozmosz Fantasztikus Konyvek #58)	963-211-271-7	Ft 12	280	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Herpai Zoltán
Unternehmen Schwerkraft	1978-00-00	Hal Clement	Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #3121)	3-453-30489-6	DM 3.80	159	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Olof Feindt
Mission of Gravity	1978-01-00	Hal Clement	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-27092-4	$1.75	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	H. R. Van Dongen
Mission of Gravity	1978-01-00	Hal Clement	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-27092-4	C$1.75	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	H. R. Van Dongen
Mission of Gravity	1978-06-00	Hal Clement	Gregg Press	0-8398-2426-2	$12.00	xii+ 256	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Mission of Gravity	1979-05-00	Hal Clement	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-27092-4	$1.75	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	H. R. Van Dongen
Mission of Gravity	1979-05-00	Hal Clement	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-27092-4	C$2.25	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	H. R. Van Dongen
Mission of Gravity	1980-03-00	Hal Clement	Doubleday / SFBC	3675	$2.98	188	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Tony Gleeson
Schwere Welten	1982-01-00	Hal Clement	Heyne (Bibliothek der Science Fiction Literatur #3)	3-453-30793-3	DM 9.80	588	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Steven Vincent Johnson
Mission Gravité	1982-03-00	Hal Clement	Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5132)	2-266-01129-4		246	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	W. Siudmak
Schwere Welten	1984-00-00	Hal Clement	Heyne (Bibliothek der Science Fiction Literatur #3)	3-453-30793-3	DM 12.80	588	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Steven Vincent Johnson
Mission of Gravity	1984-07-00	Hal Clement	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-31622-3	$2.75	233	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	H. R. Van Dongen
Mission of Gravity	1987-05-00	Hal Clement	VGSF / Gollancz	0-575-04022-X	£2.50	203	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Tony Roberts
Stella doppia 61 Cygni	1987-12-00	Hal Clement	Mondadori (Classici Urania #129)		4,500 Lit	190	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Vicente Segrelles
Mission of Gravity	1988-09-00	Hal Clement	The Easton Press (The Masterpieces of Science Fiction)		$32.00	224	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Mission of Gravity	1989-02-00	Hal Clement	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-00993-2	$3.95		pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Misión de gravedad	1993-04-00	Hal Clement	Ediciones B (Nova #55)	84-406-3331-9		246	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Eloy Sánchez Vizcaíno
Mission of Gravity	1995-02-00	Hal Clement	Del Rey / Ballantine	0-345-31622-3	$5.99	231	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel
Mission of Gravity	2000-04-00	Hal Clement	Gollancz (SF Collectors' Editions)	0-575-07094-3	£9.99	203	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
The Essential Hal Clement Volume 3: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton	2000-09-00	Hal Clement	NESFA Press	1-886778-08-6	$25.00	465	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Richard McKenna
Aǧır görev^?Agir gorev	2001-00-00	Hal Clement	İthaki Yayınları^?Ithaki Yayinlari	975-6902-95-7		322	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Chris Moore
Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories	2002-11-00	Hal Clement	Orb	0-765-30368-X	$15.95	414	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Stephan Martiniere
Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories	2003-03-00	Hal Clement	Orb / SFBC	56449	$13.99	414	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Stephan Martiniere
Mission of Gravity	2005-10-00	Hal Clement	Gollancz / Orion (Millennium / Gollancz SF Masterworks #62)	0-575-07708-5	£6.99	203	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	John Picacio
Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories	2007-05-00	Hal Clement	Orb	978-1-4299-7211-6	$7.99		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll
The Essential Hal Clement Volume 3: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton	2007-09-00	Hal Clement	NESFA Press	1-886778-08-6	$25.00	465	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Richard McKenna
Stella doppia 61 Cygni	2010-06-00	Hal Clement	Mondadori (Urania Collezione #89)	89	€5.50	307	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	novel	Franco Brambilla
Schwerkraft	2014-07-00	Hal Clement	Heyne (Meisterwerke der Science Fiction)	978-3-453-31582-2	€9.99	782	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni	Nele Schütz^?Nele Schuetz
Mission of Gravity	2014-12-00	Hal Clement	Gollancz (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-1-4732-0638-0	£8.99	203	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	John Picacio
Mission of Gravity	2014-12-00	Hal Clement	Gollancz / Orion (Gollancz SF Masterworks (II))	978-0-575-11019-9	£4.99		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel	John Picacio

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Reviews

Review by The Editors (1954) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1954
Review by Henry Bott (1954) in Imagination, August 1954
Review by Groff Conklin (1954) in Galaxy Science Fiction, August 1954
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1954) in Astounding Science Fiction, October 1954 , reprinted in:
Astounding Science Fiction, March 1955 (UK), (1955)
Review by Damon Knight (1954) in Future Science Fiction, October 1954
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1959) in Astounding Science Fiction, February 1959
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1963) in Analog Science Fact -> Science Fiction, April 1963
Review by John Carnell (1964) in New Worlds Science Fiction, January
Review by Mary H. Schaub (1969) in Locus, #42 November 21, 1969
Review by P. Schuyler Miller (1970) in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, June 1970
Review [French] by Jacques Chambon (1971) in Fiction, #214
Review by L. David Allen (1973) in Science Fiction: An Introduction , reprinted in:
Science Fiction Reader's Guide, (1974)
Review by Charles N. Brown (1979) in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, April 1979
Review by Eve Harvey (1980) in Matrix, #31
Review by Lee Smith (1980) in Thrust, #14, Winter 1980
Review [German] by uncredited (1982) in Reclams Science Fiction Führer
Review by David Pringle (1985) in Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels , reprinted in:
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1985)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1986)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1987)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (1997)
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, (2014)
Review by Ken Lake (1987) in Paperback Inferno, #68
Review by uncredited (2000) in Vector 212
Review by Peter Tennant (2000) in The Third Alternative #25, 2000
Review by Darrell Bain (2005) in My 100 Most Readable (and Re-Readable) Science Fiction Novels
Review by uncredited (2005) in Vector 244
Review by A. C. Fellows (2014) in Big Sky, #3: SF Masterworks 1
Review by Scott Lynch (2014) in Big Sky, #3: SF Masterworks 1
Review by Tony Atkins (2014) in Big Sky, #3: SF Masterworks 1
Review by Manny Rayner (2014) in Big Sky, #3: SF Masterworks 1