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Book Review of Half Life

Half Life
Half Life
Author: Hal Clement
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Paperback
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In about two hundred years, the human race on Earth is perhaps facing extinction due to the rapid evolution of disease. A crew of young men and women travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life conditions in the slim hope of discovering something that might save Earth.
The whole story runs at high speed, as they race to find answers across the surface of an alien landscape with death close behind . . . and gaining