Hal Clement

Hal Clement (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003) was an American science fiction author.

Assumption Unjustified (1946)

 * Originally published in the October 1946 issue of Astounding. Page number from the reprint in Crossroads in Time, edited by Groff Conklin.


 * It seems that these men are primitive enough to have a marked tendency toward superstition—ascribing things they don’t understand to supernatural intervention.
 * p. 17

Mission of Gravity (1954)

 * The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.
 * Chapter 9


 * No one likes to be watched constantly by someone he can’t see.
 * Chapter 11


 * What’s the use of a high school education if you can’t recall it when needed later on?
 * Chapter 14


 * Maybe we’ve been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.
 * Chapter 15