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Still River (Mass Market Paperback)

by Hal Clement (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback
  • Publisher: Del Rey; Reprint edition (Jan 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0345329171
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345329172
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,086,420 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Think You Know Your Science?, 3 Sep 2009
By Patrick Shepherd "hyperpat" (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Hal Clement practically defined the sub-genre of super-hard science fiction with his Mission of Gravity in the '50s. This book continues in that tradition. Still River is based on real scientific facts that you can go out and verify in your local high school science lab. It takes Jules Verne's old story of Journey to the Center of the Earth and creates a world where you really can travel to the center of the planet. For this purpose Clement assembles a group of very varied alien beings and one human, students sent on an (ostensible) assignment to the planet Enigma 88 to determine how such a small planet has kept an atmosphere. The story revolves around their various misadventures as the planet keeps upsetting all their assumptions and oversights, and thereby getting them into deeper and deeper trouble. A very good science puzzle story (and it really helps if you have a pretty good knowledge of inorganic chemistry under some fairly extreme conditions).

The characters are not very well realized (though better than in some of Clement's works); this is a typical failing of his. But at least the portrayed motivations and modes of thought are logical and consistent for each type of being. Not up to the standards of Mission of Gravity or Needle, but entertaining. Recommended for those who enjoy seeing entire fantastic worlds built upon sound science.

---Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)
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4.0 out of 5 stars A baffling puzzle for five very different space students, 25 July 2006
By Marshall Lord (Whitehaven, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Still River (Hardcover)
Hal Clement wrote a number of very clever stories about how different environments on other worlds might have created equally different biologies and creatures.

Still River tells a story of a graduation exercise set for a class of five students, one human and four incredibly different aliens. They have to explain why a tiny planet, Enigma 88, which should be too small to retain an atmosphere, has one.

Not a story for the sort of sci-fi reader who likes tales of danger, exitement and rapid action, but a very good one if you like tales of the strange, unexpected which force you to think.
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