WRITER

Hal Clement

1922 - 2003

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Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre. He also painted astronomically oriented artworks under the name George Richard. In 1998, Clement was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hal Clement has received more than 147,872 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Hal Clement is the 3,753rd most popular writer (down from 2,735th in 2019), the 4,813th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,572nd in 2019) and the 399th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Still river
1987
Mission of gravity
Science fiction, American Science fiction
1954
Needle
1950
Close to Critical
1966
Cycle of fire
1957
The Second IF Reader of Science Fiction
1968

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hal Clement ranks 3,753 out of 7,302. Before him are Mykola Bazhan, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Luigi Capuana, John Gray, Girolamo de Rada, and Ian Rankin. After him are Judith Gautier, Marilyn French, Edna O'Brien, Pyotr Tkachev, Simin Behbahani, and Rupert Brooke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Hal Clement ranks 237. Before him are Herman Kahn, Bob Anderson, Võ Văn Kiệt, Mariano Gonzalvo, Carmen McRae, and Marlyn Meltzer. After him are Evelyn Mase, Richard Kiley, Blaga Dimitrova, Sabino Barinaga, Micheline Ostermeyer, and Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin. Among people deceased in 2003, Hal Clement ranks 175. Before him are Françoise Giroud, Saifuddin Azizi, Philip Stone, Daishiro Yoshimura, Diana Mosley, and Luděk Pachman. After him are Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Blaga Dimitrova, Gregory Hines, Berta Ambrož, Meir Vilner, and Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hal Clement ranks 4,813 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph Gordon-Levitt (1981), Virginia Dare (1587), Mildred McDaniel (1933), John Gray (1951), John Hay (1838), and Kelly Hu (1968). After him are Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818), Marilyn French (1929), Cyrus McCormick (1809), Bayard Rustin (1912), Tom Noonan (1951), and Paul Scheuring (1968).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Hal Clement ranks 399. Before him are Robert Leckie (1920), Joe Haldeman (1943), Janet Asimov (1926), James A. Michener (1907), Og Mandino (1923), and John Gray (1951). After him are Marilyn French (1929), Brandon Sanderson (1975), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), Francis Scott Key (1779), and Henry Adams (1838).

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