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orderThe Collected Storiesof Arthur C Clarke.From Travel By Wire(1937) toImproving the Neighbourhood(1999), 104 stories fill this 966 page monolith of great science...
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order The Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke. From Travel By Wire (1937) to Improving the Neighbourhood (1999), 104 stories fill this 966 page monolith of great science fiction. There is a forward by Clarke, first publication and collection details are noted, and most of the stories have a short introduction by their author. Previously uncollected tales range from How We Went to Mars (1938) to The Wire Continuum (1997), cowritten by Stephen Baxter with whom Clarke collaborated on The Light of Other Days (2000). There are ingenious jokes such as Quarantine, displaying a sense of humour which will surprise those who think of Clarke only as the sober visionary behind 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Here too are The Sentinel and Breaking Strain, both of which provided inspiration for that film, together with such unforgettably haunting classics as The Nine Billion Names of God, Transience and The Star. Indeed, for a man considered the prophet of the modern technological age, coupled with all the scientific ingenuity and adventure there is a deep thread of essentially English melancholy, a love of nature and a lucid sense of cosmic sadness to Clarke's finest interplanetary tales. This is not just a perfect companion to the author's massive collection of non-fiction, Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!, but an essential addition to every reader's library. Clarke's best stories are among the finest ever written in any genre, now collected in an anthology as definitive as it is possible to get.--Gary S Dalkin
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Advantages: Interesting and very readable Disadvantages: See review
At work we have a lounge. It?s a very nice lounge with comfy chairs and a view over the atrium. It?s a place where you can have a break-out meeting or a little quiet time, it is also popular with non smokers looking to take advantage of the hourly ten minute breaks their puffing buddies appear to be entitled to. In this lounge is a selection of books, left by community minded colleagues. As you can imagine there is an awful lot of jumble sale tat fodder here but the odd interesting book has been known to turn up. Alongside the usual crime/historical pot boilers this little number stood out. I mean, Arthur Schnitzler? Who ever heard of him.
Well, not me anyway but the back cover blurb was intriguing. Regarding the man it went as follows: ?Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler (1862 ...
Advantages: Imaginative and thought provoking Disadvantages: Dull and predictable characters
ArthurC. Clarke (16 December 1917 - 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist probably best remembered for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick during the making of the film of the same name. He also participated in a number of television series in the 1980s, the most notable being ArthurC. Clarke's Mysterious World. Rendezvous with Rama was published in 1973 and at the time received much critical acclaim winning various literary awards including the Hugo, Jupiter and Nebula.
When a huge meteor strikes Northern Italy in the 2077, the cities of Padua, Verona and Venice are wiped out and the world's leading scientists and politicians are forced to get their heads together and create an early warning system called Spaceguard to track all potential ...
Advantages: Engaging story, light easy read Disadvantages: Slightly dated, but the ethical point is still valid
In the silence of space no-one can hear you scream. Was that Franklin?s problem? Had he screamed? Could it be that he knew what it was like not to be heard?
If that was the case why on earth?and he is back on earth?would he choose a second career that took him to what might be thought of as ?inner? space. Not the vast silent deeps of the space, but those of the oceans, just as vast, just as silent, just as deadly?
ArthurCClarke is synonymous with Science Fiction, and is probably avoided by many who would enjoy his work for that very reason. Sci-Fi isn?t all about star wars, or colonising the planets beyond our ken and meeting strange new beings. There are enough strange new beings on this planet to keep us busy for a while yet.
This was something that Clarke recognised and treasured and in this 1968 story tried to give ...
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