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Tenebra has a gravity 3 x that of Earth, a day heat range at the equator of 380 certifications centigrade, an atmosphere of drinking water mixed with other chemicals, and a constantly shifting crust. There is life, with cleverness, on the planet, and a scientific expedition has been attempting to make contact. The researchers have devised a remote-controlled unit that lands on the planet, takes away 10 youngsters using their company tribe and shows them to communicate with it - then, when they have grown up, they'll be the means of contact with the other natives. All is certainly going relating to plan until two children of the politics officials who are watching the experiment from an orbit 160,000 kilometers out climb in to the bathyscaphe that has been designed to land humans on the top of planet. They accidentally established it in motion and it soon gets too near to the planet's atmosphere to be pursued and handled. So instructions are radioed for this to land. The local group, through the control unit, are then established to track the bathyscaphe and perform the specialized work necessary before it can go back to the parent dispatch. But many weeks are to pass and many setbacks arise before the climax of the save is come to.Close to Critical could be described to a tee in the words employed by Literature and Bookmen when looking at Pattern of Flame: "Another of Clement's superb descriptive books of a totally alien world."