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First serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in 1953, & published in book form in 1954. It is set upon the planet Mesklin, which has 16 (!) times the mass of Jupiter, resulting in a local gravity of some 700 g at the poles, but only 3 g at the equator, due to it's rapid rotation. The quote was, of course, from an equatorial region.