← Back to search
Cover of Close to Critical

Close to Critical

Hal Clement (1964)

SubgenreHard SF
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG
Pages ()
SeriesMesklin #2
Setting
Goodreads3.48

Content levels

ViolenceNot rated
Sexual contentNot rated
LanguageNot rated

Trigger warnings

Not yet tagged

Positive tags

Not yet tagged

Tropes

Not yet tagged

Themes

Not yet tagged

Synopsis

From back cover Ballantine paperback July 1975: CRISIS ON TENEBRA Shrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere, Tenebra was a hostile planet... a place of crushing gravity, 370-degree temperatures, a constantly shifting crust and giant drifting raindrops. Unpromising -- yet there was life, intelligent life on Tenebra. For more than 20 years, Earth scientists had studied the natives from an orbiting laboratory... and had even found a way to train and educate a few of them. Then the unexpected happened! A young Earth girl and the son of a powerful, hot-tempered alien diplomat were marooned in a bathyscape, drifting toward the planet's deadly surface. Only the Tenebrans could rescue them!