Csillagfény

Two alien races lived under a single sun, someplace across the galaxy, sharing their world… sharing life itself. For they lived together in a partnership more perfect than any other known to the intelligences of the galaxy. Together, the two races became one, each deriving from the other that which made him greater than his individual self. Host and symbiote, they lived together, shared together… two bodies in one. For the one race was symbiotic, amorphous, able to enter the body of the other.

Then one symbiote turned Criminal, and his race could not rest until he was tracked down. But the Criminal could hide in any living thing… and on Earth there were over two billion humans alone!

HAL CLEMENT blends a masterpiece of science fiction with a story of pure detection to produce his best novel, and one of the most famous s-f novels of the past quarter-century.

Clement’s was the engaging tale of the adventures of Barlennan, a sea captain among his caterpillar-like people, on the high-gravity world of Mesklin. In Barlennan and his sailors go with humans to the even stranger world of Dhrawn, a “crusted star” of the type mentioned by Harlow Shapley. Dhrawn circles the feeble red star Lalande 21185, which actually exists (although the planet is fictionalized). Most of the book is the story of a huge landship crossing Dhrawn’s solid surface crewed by these nonhuman sailors, amidst bizarre dangers, and trying to keep Barlennan’s strange plan secret from humans. The characters, despite being mostly from Barlennan’s world, Mesklin, are well drawn and the setting is well realized. Readers bewildered by the melting and freezing of Dhrawn’s ammonia-water hydrosphere will do well to consult a phase diagram.

Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1971.

Nel futuro, la Commissione per l'Energia controllerà rigidamente il mondo. Nelle profondità dell'oceano, però, qualcuno ha preso una strada diversa… e qualcosa di nuovo sta per accadere sulla Terra!

Межпланетная экспедиция за новыми животными для московского зоопарка, в которой участвуют профессор Селезнев и его дочь Алиса, напала на след пропавших героев – трех капитанов. Друзьям удается разгадать тайну их исчезновения, но для этого пришлось выдержать жестокую схватку с настоящими космическими пиратами...

В толще Земли живут существа, на людей непохожие, но имеющие с ними сходные проблемы — они также пытаются увеличить жизненное пространство для будущих поколений и найти плодородные места и сосредоточенные там богатства…

Вот только если Пентонг претворит в жизнь свои открытия, много ли места останется на Земле для людей?

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