- American Science fiction
Dhrawn was a giant rockball, more than 3,000 times the mass of Earth. Perhaps a planet, perhaps a nearly dead star, these 17 billion square miles of mystery cried out for investigation.
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Hal Clement
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 279
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345023612
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Working name used for his sf by US author Harry Clement Stubbs (1922-2003); he used his full name for science articles, and painted as George Richard.
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