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Lecture Demonstration

Hal Clement

First published November 1973
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story
Series Mesklin

A group of nonhuman students and their human teacher on a field trip become trapped by a cave-in, and the students must devise a plan for escape before their teacher's oxygen supply is depleted.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
November 1973 Cover Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology Random House Anthology 73
February 1974 Cover Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology Random House / SFBC Anthology 73
October 1974 Cover The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology Sidgwick & Jackson Anthology 81
December 1974 Cover Astounding: John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology Ballantine Books Anthology 78
May 1975 Cover The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology Sphere Anthology 81
June 1978 Cover Mission of Gravity Gregg Press Collection
September 2000 Cover The Essential Hal Clement Volume 3: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton NESFA Press Collection 235
November 2002 Cover Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories Orb Collection 211
March 2003 Cover Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories Orb / SFBC Collection 211
May 2007 Cover Heavy Planet: The Classic Mesklin Stories Orb Collection |211
September 2007 Cover The Essential Hal Clement Volume 3: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton NESFA Press Collection 235