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Iceworld

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Hal Clement  
1953
Science Fiction
1980
1 time
Science fiction
20 Chapters
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Copyright © 1953 by Hal Clement
No dedication.
Sallman Ken had never been really sure of the wisdom he had shown in acceding to Rade's request.
May contain spoilers
Roger, by the time you're Don's age you may be able to pilot us on a return visit to your hot-blooded friend - we're going to find out how that gadget works!"
Comments may contain spoilers
This story originally appeared in Astounding Science Fiction as a three part serial copyright by Street and Smith Publications, Inc.
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Added: 29-Dec-2002
Last Updated: 21-Mar-2023

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 01-Jan-1970
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1970
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$0.95
Pages*:
221
Catalog ID:
75128
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   1 Jan 1980 - 1 Jan 1980
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Internal ID:
560
Publisher:
Unknown
ISBN:
0-447-75128-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-447-75128-4
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Jim Steranko  - Cover Artist
PLANET OF DEATH

The world was cold.  The crew of the spaceship could feel the chill in their bones even as they hung in orbit, fifty planetary diameters away.  It was a frightening prospect, for even the rays from the system's sun were week, lifeless; it seemed impossible that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life... or so it seemed to a race that breathed gaseous sulfer and drank molten copper chloride.  For the world of ice was Earth!

HAL CLEMENT
is noted for the hard-science basis of his famous novels; a high school science teacher by choice, he carefully researches every single scientific premise.

ICEWORLD
is his most sought-after novel, the hardcover edition going for as much as $25 a copy when available.  Lancer is pleased to present this inexpensive reprint edition for the thousands of fans who have heard of this novel, but could never find a hardcover edition.

A LANCER BOOK • COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
Cover printed in the U.S.A.
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 12-Sep-1977
Del Rey
Paperback
In my libraryOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
12-Sep-1977
Format:
Paperback
Cover Price:
$1.75
Pages*:
203
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
1647
Publisher:
Del Rey
ISBN:
0-345-25805-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-345-25805-2
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
H R Van Dongen  - Cover Artist
ICEWORLD

Mottled with sinister colors, the planet gleamed in the spacecraft's viewport. Sallman Ken could not believe that such a bleak and icy globe could ever have produced intelligent life. Yet the expedition had contacted natives of some sort when it sent in unmanned landers.

More important, smugglers from his own planet had begun trading with the natives of that Iceworld for a new and virulent narcotic... the most dangerous drug ever to come into their universe.

Now Sallman Ken wondered what manner of creature could exist on a planet so cold that sulfur was a solid, not a gas, and water actually existed as a liquid. But he wouldn't wonder for long, for Ken had to find a way onto the surface of that planet so he could locate the source of that deadly drug.
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First Ballantine Books Edition: October 1977

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Hal Clement  
Birth: 30 May 1922 Somerville, Massachusetts, The United States
Death: 29 Oct 2003

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