Cosmic Engineers

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Cosmic Engineers

Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Clifford D. Simak
Cover artist Edd Cartier
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Gnome Press
Publication date 1950
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 224 pp
ISBN NA
OCLC 21462352

Cosmic Engineers is a science fiction novel by author Clifford D. Simak. It was published in 1950 by Gnome Press in an edition of 6,000 copies, of which 1,000 were bound in paperback for an armed forces edition. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1939.

[edit] Plot introduction

The novel concerns a group of earthmen and a girl who are awakened from suspended animation by aliens with whom they join to prevent the collision of one universe with another.

[edit] References

  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 299. 
  • Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 391. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.