Reviews
“For well over half a century, Hal Clement has been a towering, even decisive figure in our special literature.” —Poul Anderson
“Hal Clement — who was anointed the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America’s 1998 Grand Master — has been writing for the last half century. In that time he has defined the “hard SF” subgenre and established it as his own.” —Analog
“Hal Clement brought a new seriousness to the extrapolative hard-SF. . . story, and [a] vividness of imagination–his sense that the Universe is wonderful. . . . He is a figure of importance to the genre.” —The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction