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The Best Of Arthur C. Clarke
''The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1971'' is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke originally published in 1973. The stories, written between 1937 and 1971, originally appeared in a number of periodicals including ''Amateur Science Stories'', ''Zenith'', ''The Fantast'', ''Fantasy'', ''Startling Stories'', '' Astounding'', ''Science Fiction Quarterly'', '' 10 Story Fantasy'', ''Infinity Science Fiction'', ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', '' The Evening Standard'', ''Vogue'', ''Analog'', '' If'', ''Boys' Life'' and ''Playboy'' Contents The contents include: * 1933: A Science Fiction Odyssey * "Travel by Wire!" * "Retreat from Earth" * " The Awakening" * "Whacky" * "Castaway" * "History Lesson" * "Hide and Seek" * "Second Dawn" * " The Sentinel" * "The Star" * "Refugee" * ''Venture to the Moon'' ** "The Starting Line" ** "Robin Hood, F.R.S." ** "Green Fingers" ** "All That Glitters" ** "Watch This Space" ** "A Questi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Analog Magazine
''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930. Originally titled ''Astounding Stories of Super-Science'', the first issue was dated January 1930, published by William Clayton, and edited by Harry Bates. Clayton went bankrupt in 1933 and the magazine was sold to Street & Smith. The new editor was F. Orlin Tremaine, who soon made ''Astounding'' the leading magazine in the nascent pulp science fiction field, publishing well-regarded stories such as Jack Williamson's '' Legion of Space'' and John W. Campbell's "Twilight". At the end of 1937, Campbell took over editorial duties under Tremaine's supervision, and the following year Tremaine was let go, giving Campbell more independence. Over the next few years Campbell published many stories that became classics in the field, including Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' series, A. E. van Vogt's ''Slan'', and several novels and stories by Robert A. Heinl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hate (Clarke)
"Hate" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961Short Stories ''Arthurcclarke.net'', 2007-2011, retrieved June 22, 2011 and subsequently included in several collections of Clarke's writings, including ''''. The story originated when movie producer asked Clarke to write a |
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] |
Summertime On Icarus
"Summertime on Icarus" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in ''Vogue'' in 1960. It was also published under the title "The Hottest Piece of Real Estate in the Solar System". Plot summary This story tells of engineer Colin Sherrard on an expedition as part of the International Astrophysical Decade, which is intended to get a research spaceship within seventeen million miles of the Sun, shielded by the asteroid Icarus In Greek mythology, Icarus (; grc, Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspe .... Travelling in his one-man mechanical pod, he suffers an accident and loses consciousness. When he comes to, he is not sure where he is - nor are the explorers in the mother ship. His pod is damaged and his communications are unreliable. Just as he is about to fry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Venture To The Moon
"Venture to the Moon" is a group of six linked science fiction short stories by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in the British newspaper ''Evening Standard'' in 1956. The stories describe the first crewed mission to the Moon in 1975, as a joint American-Russian-British mission, and are narrated in first person from the point of view of the British team commander. Despite the death described in the third story, they are written in a humorous vein. They are collected in ''The Other Side of the Sky''. Plot summary *"The Starting Line" tells of the launch of the first lunar expedition jointly by British, American and Russian rockets which have been assembled in Earth orbit. The plan is for all three ships to leave Earth orbit and land simultaneously, but the narrator has secretly been ordered to depart ahead of the other two ships. *"Robin Hood FRS" tells of the efforts by the joint expedition members to recover an automatic supply rocket that has la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Star (Clarke Short Story)
"The Star" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. It appeared in the science fiction magazine ''Infinity Science Fiction'' in 1955 and won the Hugo Award in 1956. It is collected in Clarke's 1958 book of short stories ''The Other Side of the Sky'', and was reprinted in the January 1965 issue of ''Short Story International'' as the lead-off story. Plot summary A group of space explorers from Earth return from an expedition to a remote star system, where they discovered the remnants of an advanced civilization destroyed when its star went supernova. The group's chief astrophysicist, a Jesuit priest, is suffering from a deep crisis of faith, triggered by some undisclosed event during the journey. The destroyed planet's culture was very similar to Earth's. Recognizing several generations in advance that their star would soon explode, and with no means of interstellar travel to save themselves, the doomed people spent their final years building a vault ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sentinel (short Story)
"The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by British author Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as "Sentinel of Eternity", which was used as a starting point for the 1968 novel and film ''2001: A Space Odyssey''. Publication history "The Sentinel" was written in 1948 for a BBC competition (in which it failed to place) and was first published in the magazine '' 10 Story Fantasy'' in its Spring 1951 issue, under the title "Sentinel of Eternity". It was subsequently published as part of the short story collections '' Expedition to Earth'' (1953), ''The Nine Billion Names of God'' (1967), and ''The Lost Worlds of 2001'' (1972). Despite the story's initial failure, it changed the course of Clarke's career. Anthology '' The Sentinel'' (published 1982) is also the title of a collection of Arthur C. Clarke short stories, which includes the eponymous "The Sentinel", "Guardian Angel" (the inspiration for his 1953 novel ''Childhood's End''), "The S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Lesson (short Story)
"History Lesson" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949 in the magazine ''Startling Stories''. The two-part story speculates on the cooling of the Sun as a doomsday scenario for Earth and an evolutionary advent for Venus. Plot summary The first part of the story is told from the perspective of a tribe of nomadic humans of the 30th century, in a future where Earth has entered a final ice age. The tribe is travelling toward the equator ahead of glaciers that are descending from the North Pole, but discovers, when they arrive in the last hospitable region of the planet, that glaciers from the South Pole have already almost reached them. The tribe carries with it a few relics from the previous centuries which it considers sacred, although the functions of the various objects have been forgotten. A generation later, just before the two glaciers fronts meet and spell ultimate extinction of the human species, the relics are s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Awakening (Arthur C Clarke Short Story)
"The Awakening" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. There are two distinct versions of this short story. Introduction to the story in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke The first was originally published in ''Zenith Sci-fi'' fanzine issue number 4 in February 1942. This version was reprinted in '' The Best of Arthur C. Clarke''. It is this version which appears in the almost complete '' The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke''. A revised version was published in the collection ''Reach For Tomorrow ''Reach for Tomorrow'' is a 1956 collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. All the stories originally appeared in a number of different publications. Contents This collection includes: *"Preface" *"Rescue Pa ...'' in 1956, individually copyrighted to 1951. Plot summary The protagonist is the Master who is suffering from heart failure and given less than a year to live. The Master opts to be frozen a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travel By Wire!
"Travel by Wire!" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. His first published story, it was first published in December 1937 in the magazine ''Amateur Science Stories''. It was subsequently published as part of the collection ''The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1955''. This story is a humorous record on the development of the "radio-transporter" (actually a teleportation machine), and the various technical difficulties and commercial ventures that resulted. In ''The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke ''The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke'', first published in 2001, is a collection of almost all science fiction short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke. It includes 114 stories, arranged in order of publication, from " Travel by Wire ...'', the author calls the story (as well as his other early writings) "a kind of absolute zero from which my later writing may be calibrated". External links * Short stories by Arthur C. Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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