num_pages: 233
description: For a profit -- and adventure -- Barlennan would sail thousands of miles across uncharted waters, into regions where gravity itself played strange tricks. He would dare the perils of strange tribes and stranger creatures -- even dicker with those strange aliens from beyond the skies, though the concept of another world was unknown to the inhabitants of the disk-shaped planet of Mesklin.But in spite of the incredible technology of the strangers and without regard for their enormous size, Barlennan had the notion of turning the deal to an unsuspected advantage for himself . . . all in all a considerable enterprise for a being very much resembling a fifteen-inch caterpillar!This book also contains Hal Clement's classic article "Whiligig World."
language: English
title: Mission of Gravity
titlecomplete: Mission of Gravity
characters: Barlennnan, Charles Lackland
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Speculative Fiction, Space Opera, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, 20th Century, Hard Science Fiction
ratings_count: 7124
places: Mesklin
series: Mesklin
awards: awardedAt: -473356800000
name: International Fantasy Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Premio Ignotus
category: Mejor novela extranjera, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Retro Hugo Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Del Rey