Needle

Novela de 1950 de un autor, Hal Clement (1922-2003) considerado en la época como de la línea de CF “Hard”. Y además esta fue su primera novela. Y fue novedosa porque aparece un extraterrestre simbionte y no hostil (que por la época habían sido malos malotes todos los anteriores). El ser en cuestión......more

After Mission of Gravity, Needle is Clement's best known book. It was first published in Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction in 1949; it would probably fall into the Y.A. category today. Unlike most of Clement's novels it's set on Earth, though much of it is in an undersea environment. The science......more

Hal Clement had a fifty year career in sf and was made a Science Fiction Writer of America Grand Master in 1999. Needle (1950) was his first published novel and it suffers the dubious fate of containing so many new sf elements that they have become standards of the medium over time. Two aliens, one g......more

Titulo: Persecucion cosmica (1949) Autor: Hal Clement Motivo de lectura: #buzzwordathon Lectura / Relectura: Lectura Mi edicion: Electronico Puntuacion: 2/5 Es la primera vez que leo a Hal Clement, y aunque admito que es un libro que podria entretener a cierta clase de lector, en mi caso eso no ocurrio. La......more

One of the Best Hal Clement 'juveniles' Needle tells the story of an alien creature that can live inside a human host--benignly, and from the alien's point of view much of the time. Very good read. Interesting and sharp. Could not put down!......more