Hal Clement - Cycle of Fire

Kruger watched the little aircraft out of sight. It did not take long to vanish, for his eyes were not as clear as they should have been, but he was still facing the direction in which it had gone when he finally muttered, “I will be!” He turned away as the thud of a great door sounded from the tunnel.

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Contents

I. LOGISTICS

II. DIPLOMACY

III. PEDAGOGY

IV. ARCHAEOLOGY

V. CONFISCATION

VI. INVESTIGATION

VII. ENGINEERING

VIII. TRANSPORTATION

IX. TACTICS

X. ELUCIDATION

XI. ASTRONOMY; DIPLOMACY

XII. GEOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY

XIII. ASTRONOMY; XENOLOGY

XIV. BIOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY

XV. ASTRONOMY; LOGIC

Author Bio

Hal Clement is the nom de plume under which Harry Clement Stubbs wrote science fiction. Born in Massachusetts in 1922, he graduated from Harvard with a BSc. in astronomy, and later added degrees in chemistry and education. A former B-24 pilot who saw active service during the Second World War, he worked for most of his life as a high-school science teacher. He made his reputation as an SF writer with the work that appeared in Astounding , where his best-known novel, Mission of Gravity, first appeared in serialised form in 1953.