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Mission of Gravity

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    In science fiction: Alien encounters

    Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity (1954) was a tour de force in that its hero is a tiny intelligent centipede-like creature who breathes poison gas in the crushing gravity of an alien world. This description alone makes it clear just how difficult imagining the alien can be.…

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