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Tales Of Ten Worlds
''Tales of Ten Worlds'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications. Contents This collection, originally published in 1962, includes the following: * "I Remember Babylon" * " Summertime on Icarus" * "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting..." * "Who's There?" * "Hate" * "Into the Comet" * "An Ape about the House" * "Saturn Rising" * "Let There be Light" * " Death and the Senator" * "Trouble With Time" * "Before Eden" * "A Slight Case of Sunstroke" * " Dog Star" * "The Road to the Sea" Reception Avram Davidson received the collection favorably, praising Clarke's stories saying "Few writers in the field handle science with such knowledge as to be so convincing, such deftness as never to place stumbling-blocks, and with such clarity of style as to appear to have none at all.""Books", F&SF ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
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Let There Be Light (Clarke Short Story)
"Let There Be Light" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957 in a Scottish Sunday newspaper. It was subsequently published in ''Playboy'' magazine, and was collected in ''Tales of Ten Worlds''. It takes place in the same fictional setting as the stories in the collection ''Tales from the White Hart ''Tales from the White Hart'' is a collection of short stories by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, in the "club tales" style. Thirteen of the fifteen stories originally appeared across a number of different publications. "Moving Sp ...''. Plot The tale is told through a narrator that Clarke often uses, Harry Purvis, one of the regulars at the White Hart pub. He intervenes in a discussion of the depiction of "death rays" in pulp science fiction. Most science fiction pictures show a visible beam but visible light is harmless. However, Harry insists he knows of a death ray that was quite visible. Harry relates th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Advent (publisher)
Advent:Publishers is an American publishing house. It was founded by Earl Kemp and other members of the University of Chicago Science Fiction Club, including Sidney Coleman, in 1955, to publish criticism, history, and bibliography of the science fiction field, beginning with Damon Knight's ''In Search of Wonder''. With books like ''In Search of Wonder'' and James Blish's ''The Issue at Hand'', Advent became the genre's first scholarly publisher. Authors Authors in the field who have either written or edited Advent books, or been the subject of an Advent book, include: * Cy Chauvin * Reginald Bretnor *Theodore Cogswell *Robert A. Heinlein *Cyril Kornbluth *Alfred Bester *Robert Bloch *L. Sprague de Camp * Howard DeVore *E. E. Smith * Ron Ellik *Lloyd Arthur Eshbach *Damon Knight *Alexei Panshin *Donald H. Tuck *Harry Warner Jr Footnotes on First Beginnings: Advent & the UofCSF Club… “After exchanging a few letters with Mari Wolf (who was conducting “Fandora’s Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondadori
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore () is the biggest publishing company in Italy. History The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with the publication of the magazine ''Luce!''. In 1912 he founded ''La Sociale'' and published the first book ''AiaMadama'' together with his close friend Tommaso Monicelli and the following year, ''La Lampada'', a series of children's books. The publishing house kept working intensely even during the First World War, mainly on the publication of magazines for the troops on the front such as ''La Tradotta'', which included contributions from famous illustrators and writers such as Soffici, De Chirico and Carrà. In 1919 the publishing house headquarters were transferred to Milan. After the First World War, Mondadori launched several successful book series including Gialli Mondadori in 1929, the first example of an Italian book series dedicated to detective and crime novels, by internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
F&SF
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy fiction magazine, fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence E. Spivak, Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Publications, Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas had approached Spivak in the mid-1940s about creating a fantasy companion to Spivak's existing mystery title, ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine''. The first issue was titled ''The Magazine of Fantasy'', but the decision was quickly made to include science fiction as well as fantasy, and the title was changed correspondingly with the second issue. ''F&SF'' was quite different in presentation from the existing science fiction magazines of the day, most of which were in pulp magazine, pulp format: it had no interior illustrations, no letter column, and text in a single column format, which in the opinion of science fiction historian Mike Ashley (writer), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avram Davidson
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam (see Adam in Islam) and culminates in Muhammad. His life, told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis, revolves around the themes of posterity and land. Abraham is called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son by his wife Sarah, while Isaac's half-brother Ishmael is also promised that he will be the founder of a great nation. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dog Star (short Story)
"Dog Star" is a 1962Short Stories ''Arthurcclarke.net'', 2007-2011, retrieved June 22, 2011 by British writer Arthur C. Clarke about an astronomer and his dog, . The story was also published under the title "Moondog". Plot summary An Astronomer on a |
Before Eden
"Before Eden" is a science fiction short story by the British author Arthur C. Clarke, first published in June 1961 in ''Amazing Stories''. It was included in ''Tales of Ten Worlds'', a 1962 collection of stories by Clarke, and has been translated into multiple languages. The story, written when speculation about Venus was based entirely on observations from Earth, describes what the environment on the planet's surface could be like. A consequence of interplanetary contamination is imagined. Plot summary Jerry Garfield, engineer-navigator, Graham Hutchins, a biologist, and George Coleman, a scientist, have travelled to Venus on the spaceship ''Morning Star'', and are exploring, in a scout car, the surface of Venus. Above are permanent unbroken clouds. They are on the Hesperian Plateau, hoping to reach the South Pole. Thirty miles from the pole, their progress is stopped by an escarpment. They see a dried-up waterfall on the cliff ahead, evidence of lakes above: they realize that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death And The Senator
"Death and the Senator" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in 1961Short Stories . ''Arthurcclarke.net'', 2007-2011, retrieved June 22, 2011 and has since been included in several collections of Clarke's writings. Plot summary Set in an unspecified year, but a few years before 1976, the story tells of Martin Steelman, an American and potential Presidential candidate. As a member of a Senate committee, he has used his influence and rhetoric to refuse funding for an project. S ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saturn Rising
"Saturn Rising" is a short story by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was first published in March 1961 in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''. It was included in ''Tales of Ten Worlds'', a collection of stories by Clarke first published in 1962. It has been translated into French, German, Italian and Croatian.. Retrieved 23 January 2019. The story imagines the development of space tourism. Story summary The narrator, talking as though the subject has arisen during a conversation, tells the story of his association with Morris Perlman. The narrator, back from a pioneering voyage to Saturn, first meets him while breakfasting at his hotel during a lecture tour. Perlman attended the narrator's lecture the previous evening, and tells him that he was always fascinated by Saturn: he saw Chesley Bonestell's paintings; a memorable moment in his youth was seeing the planet for the first time, with a home-made telescope. His father, manager of a hotel in Third Avenue, New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Books
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Into The Comet
"Into the Comet" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in the literary magazine ''Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in 1960. It is one of several stories by many science fiction authors in which problems are solved by reverting to 'primitive' technology. The story was also published as "Inside the Comet". Plot summary The plot concerns a journey by a spaceship to enter through the layers of gas surrounding a comet and observe the nucleus at close range. This part of the mission is successful, but the ship's computer develops a malfunction and they are unable to compute the required orbit to escape the comet. The ionised gas in the comet's tail prevents any radio communication with Earth. George Takeo Pickett, a part-Japanese journalist on board the ship, recalls the use of the abacus used by his granduncle, a bank teller, and persuades the ship's astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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