Attitude

by Hal Clement, William A Kolliker

novella about space travel

Genres: Science Fiction

50 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1943

About the author

Harry Clement Stubbs better known by the pen name Hal Clement , was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.

Further details at Wikipedia.

Reviews

[MH · Rating 2 out of 5]

Puzzle SF from 1943, and it shows. The author can imagine giant space cruisers travelling to the Magellanic Clouds, and weird aliens, but cannot possibly imagine that anyone in the story would be a woman or not smoke. As expected, the Competent Man outwits his opponents and solves the puzzle.

[More Books Than Time · Rating 2 out of 5]

I loved Hal Clement as a teen, now find his stories interesting, cute, emotionally dead. Characters do things, things happen, one guy is the story’s version of Sherlock Holmes. Now I want read about people.

[David Wilcox · Rating 2 out of 5]

Defective book - half the pages are blank

The book is defective - at least half the pages are blank - very few times are two sequential pages available - the story might be interesting if you could read it