Good Thing You Can Heal: Handled consistently in Needle.If you pay attention to the story and spot the clues, you can figure out the Fugitive's hiding place in the exact same way the Hunter does. The Fair-Play Whodunnit: Needle is both a science fiction novel and a mystery novel.Earth All Along: The Nitrogen Fix kicks this up a notch by making Earth actively uninhabitable to human beings (as in, survival domes and oxygen masks), and introducing an alien race that thrives in the new environment.The narration points out that "Solid sulphur world" would be a closer translation, since the protagonists never saw water ice. The novel's extra-terrestial protagonists are from a planet that is literally as hot as an oven, and "Iceworld" how they nickname Earth in (the English translation of) their discussions. Cultural Translation: In-Universe in Iceworld.Babies Ever After: In Still River, when they plan a return to the planetoid, a woman scientist observes that some of the aliens are coming out of curiosity in her pregnancy.Clement would go to great lengths to invent non-terrestrial planets and populate them with believable life forms. All Planets Are Earthlike: Subverted by many of his works.The story takes place among aliens who live at very high temperatures, and the drug is tobacco, acquired via robot probe from a human who has no idea why the aliens are willing to trade gold for cigarettes. The Aggressive Drug Dealer: In Iceworld, the protagonist is sent to infiltrate a criminal syndicate which has discovered a drug vapor that addicts those who inhale it with one dose.Works by Hal Clement with their own trope pages include: He was declared one of SF's Grand Masters in 1998.Ĭlement is credited with coining the term "symbiote" the proper term in biology is "symbiont", but Clement's coinage caught on. All told, he wrote over a dozen novels and numerous short stories during his career. His best known works are Mission of Gravity, about the inhabitants of an extremely massive planet, and Needle, about a symbiote detective who visits Earth in search of a symbiote criminal. Generally considered one of the harder science fiction writers, he enjoyed creating unusual and extreme, but still realistic, settings and creatures for his stories. Hal Clement (real name: Harry Clement Stubbs) was an American Science Fiction writer.
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