| Born: May 30, 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts |
| First Publication: |
Proof, Astounding, June 1942 |
| First Novel: |
Needle, Doubleday, 1950 |
| Retro-Hugo Award: |
Uncommon Sense, 1946 |
| Hal's "real" name is Harry Clement Stubbs. He also paints under the name George Richard. giving him a second alias and making him a triple threat. He holds degrees in astronomy, chemistry, and education, and is a former high school teacher. He's also handy with a camera as you can see from the front of this card. |
| Hal's best-known work, Mission of Gravity, is well regarded for both its exercise in building the unique planet Mesklin, as well the entertainingly alien Mesklinites who live there. |
| "Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science." |
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Hal Clement