The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

by Clarke, Arthur C.

• ISBN13: 9780312878214
• ISBN10: 0312878214
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-10
• Publisher: Tor Books

Summary

Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey , Childhood's End , The City and the Stars , and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Rendezvous with Rama , Arthur C. Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive. He is-with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein-one of the writers who define science fiction in our time. Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works. From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre," through classics like "The Star," "Earthlight," "The Nine Billion Names of God," and "The Sentinel" (kernel of the later novel, and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey ), all the way to later work like "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The Hammer of God," this immense volume encapsulates one of the great SF careers of all time.

Author Biography

Born in Minehead, Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke is perhaps the most celebrated science fiction author alive today. He is the author of more than sixty books with more than 50 million copies in print, and the winner of all the field's highest honors. He was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1986.

In 1945 he published the technical paper "Extra-terrestrial Relays", which in essence invented the principle of worldwide communication via geosynchronous satellite.

His well-known novels include Childhood's End; Against the Fall of Knight; 2001:A Space Odyssey; Rendezvous with Rama; Imperial Earth; The Fountains of Paradise; 2010: Odyssey Two; 2061: Odyssey Three, and 3001. In 1968, he collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was derived from his story "The Sentinel."

He has lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka since 1956. He was awarded the CBE in 1989 and knighted in 1998.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Travel by Wire!	1	(4)
How We Went to Mars	5	(8)
Retreat From Earth	13	(9)
Reverie	22	(2)
The Awakening	24	(3)
Whacky	27	(2)
Loophole	29	(6)
Rescue Party	35	(21)
Technical Error	56	(13)
Castaway	69	(6)
The Fires Within	75	(7)
Inheritance	82	(7)
Nightfall	89	(3)
History Lesson	92	(7)
Transience	99	(5)
The Wall of Darkness	104	(15)
The Lion of Comarre	119	(36)
The Forgotten Enemy	155	(5)
Hide-and-Seek	160	(9)
Breaking Strain	169	(22)
Nemesis	191	(12)
Guardian Angel	203	(22)
Time's Arrow	225	(11)
A Walk In the Dark	236	(8)
Silence Please	244	(9)
Trouble With the Natives	253	(10)
The Road to the Sea	263	(38)
The Sentinel	301	(8)
Holiday On the Moon	309	(23)
Earthlight	332	(39)
Second Dawn	371	(24)
Superiority	395	(8)
If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth...'	403	(4)
All the Time In the World	407	(10)
The Nine Billion Names Of God	417	(6)
The Possessed	423	(5)
The Parasite	428	(9)
Jupiter Five	437	(23)
Encounter In the Dawn	460	(9)
The Other Tiger	469	(3)
Publicity Campaign	472	(4)
Armaments Race	476	(6)
The Deep Range	482	(7)
No Morning After	489	(5)
Big Game Hunt	494	(5)
Patent Pending	499	(8)
Refugee	507	(10)
The Star	517	(5)
What Goes Up	522	(8)
Venture to the Moon	530	(20)
The Pacifist	550	(8)
The Reluctant Orchid	558	(8)
Moving Spirit	566	(10)
The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch	576	(5)
The Ultimate Melody	581	(6)
The Next Tenants	587	(7)
Cold War	594	(6)
Sleeping Beauty	600	(8)
Security Check	608	(4)
The Man Who Ploughed the Sea	612	(13)
Critical Mass	625	(6)
The Other Side of the Sky	631	(16)
Let There Be Light	647	(5)
Out of the Sun	652	(6)
Cosmic Casanova	658	(6)
The Songs of Distant Earth	664	(23)
A Slight Case of Sunstroke	687	(6)
Who's There?	693	(4)
Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting ...	697	(5)
I Remember Babylon	702	(9)
Trouble With Time	711	(5)
Into the Comet	716	(8)
Summertime on Icarus	724	(9)
Saturn Rising	733	(9)
Death and the Senator	742	(16)
Before Eden	758	(9)
Hate	767	(12)
Love That Universe	779	(3)
Dog Star	782	(5)
Maelstrom II	787	(11)
An Ape About the House	798	(6)
The Shining Ones	804	(13)
The Secret	817	(5)
Dial F For Frankenstein	822	(6)
The Wind From the Sun	828	(15)
The Food of the Gods	843	(4)
The Last Command	847	(2)
Light of Darkness	849	(5)
The Longest Science-fiction Story Ever Told	854	(1)
Playback	855	(3)
The Cruel Sky	858	(15)
Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq.	873	(2)
Crusade	875	(4)
Neutron Tide	879	(2)
Reunion	881	(2)
Transit of Earth	883	(11)
A Meeting With Medusa	894	(34)
Quarantine	928	(1)
'siseneG'	929	(1)
The Steam-powered Word Processor	930	(5)
On Golden Seas	935	(3)
The Hammer of God	938	(10)
The Wire Continuum (with Stephen Baxter)	948	(17)
Improving the Neighbourhood	965