Talk:Hal Clement

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I believe Hal Clement is known better for his short SF rather than his novels. Does anyone think it's worthwhile to start a subsection of the biblio for these? Jon Dowland 21:53, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

definitley worthwhile 00:28, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mesklin, the first shared world?

Hal Clement opened his world of Mesklin to anyone who wanted to write stories set on the planet. Apparently nobody took him up on the offer. Shared worlds/universes like C.J. Cherryh's 'Merovingen Nights' and Ropert Asprin's 'Theives World' didn't become popular until decades after 'Mission of Gravity'.

Is it possible to get a complete map of Mesklin and copies of all the information he compiled before writing that book? He made a 'globe' of Mesklin before he started writing so he could keep the geography straight. Having new Mesklin stories, written by today's best hard SF authors would be a wonderful thing!

[edit] Personal stuff that doesn't belong in Wikipedia, but I wanted to share

As far as I could tell, Hal Clement had a camera surgically attached to his body. At least, for the better part of 20 years I never met him without one. He was also fond of snakes, and if I happened to have one with me at an SF con (back in a more laid-back era) I usually wound up having to retrieve it from him at least once.