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Still River
Still River
Author: Hal Clement
Years of exacting study were coming to an end. All five student scientists, each the best its species had to offer, were one step away from their final degrees. One examination remained: the students were to determine why the tiny planet of Enigma, a planet with so little mass that it should never have had an atmosphere, in fact did. — Everything...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780345329172
ISBN-10: 0345329171
Publication Date: 1/13/1989
Pages: 262
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Publisher: Del Rey
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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Still River is based on real scientific facts that you can go out and verify in your local high school science lab. It takes Jules Verne's old story of Journey to the Center of the Earth and creates a world where you really can travel to the center of the planet. For this purpose Clement assembles a group of very varied alien beings and one human, students sent on an assignment to the planet Enigma 88 to determine how such a small planet has kept an atmosphere. The story revolves around the various misadventures as the planet keeps upsetting all their assumptions and oversights, and thereby getting them into deeper and deeper trouble. A very good science puzzle story


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