Más conocido en el mundo de la ciencia ficción como Hal Clement, su obra más famosa es Misión de gravedad, falleció el pasado día 29. El New York Times le dedica unas líneas:
More than 18 Hal Clement books appeared during Mr. Stubbs’s 62-year career. He chose his pen name in 1941, when he sold his first short story to Astounding Science Fiction while a Harvard undergraduate. Having just published two articles under his own name in astronomy journals, he feared his professors would disapprove of his appearance in a pulp publication. By the time he discovered that they had no objections, Hal Clement was a respected name in science fiction, so he kept it.