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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4565345" data-attributes="member: 19675">I just finished reading Hal Clement's Mesklin stories, collected as the book Heavy Planet. The stories are classics of hard sci-fi, well worth the read.&nbsp; They revolve around the relationship between exploring humans and their dealings with a particular tribe of Mesklinites, shortly after first contact with the pre-industrial natives.Mesklin is a heavy world planet with ultra-high rotation shaped like a discus.&nbsp; At the rim, the gravity is 3g...at the poles, its 700g!&nbsp; Its day is only a few minutes long.The Mesklinites themselves strongly resemble 15&quot;-36&quot; long (depending on tribe) red &amp; black caterpillars.&nbsp; Their lifespans are much longer than humans.At one point they discuss the amount of intelligent life encountered by humanity.&nbsp; There are only a few other alien races mentioned in the stories, but none but humans and Mesklinites actually appear in them.&nbsp; AFAIK, none of the other races were ever fleshed out by Clement in other stories.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 4565345, member: 19675"] I just finished reading Hal Clement's Mesklin stories, collected as the book [I]Heavy Planet[/I]. The stories are classics of hard sci-fi, well worth the read. They revolve around the relationship between exploring humans and their dealings with a particular tribe of Mesklinites, shortly after first contact with the pre-industrial natives. Mesklin is a heavy world planet with ultra-high rotation shaped like a discus. At the rim, the gravity is 3g...at the poles, its 700g! Its day is only a few minutes long. The Mesklinites themselves strongly resemble 15"-36" long (depending on tribe) red & black caterpillars. Their lifespans are much longer than humans. At one point they discuss the amount of intelligent life encountered by humanity. There are only a few other alien races mentioned in the stories, but none but humans and Mesklinites actually appear in them. AFAIK, none of the other races were ever fleshed out by Clement in other stories. [/QUOTE]

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