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SCIENCE FICTION-IT WAS A LIQUID PLANET.IT STEAMED.AND MELTED.AND HARDENED AGAIN INTO CHANGING SHAPES AND MOVING MOUNTAINS.SHIPS COULD NOT LAND THERE.THE BOOSTERS WERE USELESS AGAINST PRESSURE 800 TIMES THAT OF EARTH.METAL DISSOLVED IN A FEW MOMENTS TO A POOL OF SLIME.THE INHABITANTS WERE SCALE ARMOURED CREATURES WEIGHING OVER A TON.AND WHEN TWO CHILDREN,ONE HUMAN,ONE ALIEN,WERE LOST IN AN EXPERIMENTAL BATHYSCAPE ON THE SURFACE OF THE PLANET,THEIR RESCUE PRESENTED A FORMIDABLE AND TERRIFYING TASK.
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Close to Critical
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Contents are tight and clean, with no inscriptions, no foxing, and no remainder mark. Some tanning to pages. Cover is in great condition, with just some slight shelfwear. Perfect for any collector of sci-fi/fantasy books. 156pp. (11x18cm). Please contact us for any more information. Seller Inventory # 6912
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0552079154I5N00
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Close To Critical: 2nd in the 'Mesklin' series of books
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Transworld / Corgi, 1968
ISBN 10: 0552079154
ISBN 13: 9780552079150
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Paperback: 7¼" x 4½". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Uncredited (illustrator). 1968 Edition. © 1964: 2nd in the 'Mesklin' series of books. 1st printing of 1968 edition:- Synopsis: It was a liquid planet. It steamed. And hardened again into changing shapes and moving mountains. Ships could not land there. The boosters were useless against a pressure eight hundred times that of earth. Metal dissolved in a few moments to a pool of slime. The inhabitants were scale-armoured creatures weighing over a ton. And when two children, one human, one alien, were lost in an experimental bathyscaphe on the surface of the planet, their rescue presented a formidable and terrifying task:- (original cost 3'6). Seller Inventory # 19.015.00011
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London: Corgi Books 1968 First Corgi Paperback Printing ISBN 0-55207915-4, 1968
ISBN 10: 0552079154
ISBN 13: 9780552079150
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Mild edgewear, otherwise a very attractive copy, very clean throughout. Cover art by Josh Kirby. Seller Inventory # 18960
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Close to Critical
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Corgi, London, 1968
ISBN 10: 0552079154
ISBN 13: 9780552079150
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Paperback First Edition. 158pp.Looks unused unread book, slight shelfwear - lightly bumped corners, rubbed spine folds. Uncreased spine. Faintly foxed endpapers, no owner's marks. An Earth girl and the son of a powerful hot-tempered alien diplomat are marooned in a bathyscaphe drifting towards the surface of the hostile planet Tenebra, and only the primitive Tenebrans can rescue them. 110g. (Science Fiction, fantasy, Vintage Pb). Seller Inventory # C02476
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Close to Critical - Mesklinite Series #2
Seller: Manyhills Books, Traralgon, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Corgi, UK, 1968. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Shrouded in eternal gloom by its own thick atmosphere, Tenebra was a hostile planet.a place of crushing gravity, 370-degree temperatures, a constantly shifting crust and giant drifting raindrops. Uncompromising - yet there was life, intelligent life on Tenebra. For more than twenty years, Earth scientists had studied the natives from an orbiting laboratory.and had even found a way to train and educate a few of them. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0552079154. ISBN/EAN: 9780552079150. Inventory No: 09040551. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. Seller Inventory # 09040551