Margins
Fossil book cover
Fossil
1993
First Published
3.05
Average Rating
306
Number of Pages

Part of Series

The Seventh Race Set in a niverse created by Isaac Asimov and written by science fiction master Hal CLement, this is the story of six vastly different star faring races struggling to coexist as they combine their forces for a scientific project on the inhospitable world of Habranha. Their mission is to search through the planet's ice layers for fossils which they hope will determine whether the winged natives, the Habras, actually evolved there or are—as some evidence indicates—descendants of the long-vanished, legendary Seventh Race. But there are those among the Six Races who seem to have secret agendas of their own. And when a ground vehicle turns up at the research settlement with no one aboard except a long-dead Habra frozen in a block of ice, humans Hugh and Janice Cedar and their allies among the Six Races are determined to get to the root of this mystery. Has someone sent them a fully preserved fossil, a long-buried ancestor of the present-day Habras? Or is this an elaborate hoax being staged to put an end to their study before they can unearth the truth about the planet and its people?

Avg Rating
3.05
Number of Ratings
41
5 STARS
7%
4 STARS
22%
3 STARS
44%
2 STARS
22%
1 STARS
5%
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Author

Hal Clement
Hal Clement
Author · 22 books

Harry Clement Stubbs better known by the pen name Hal Clement , was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. Further details at Wikipedia.

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