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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!" in 1937 through to " Improving the Neighbourhood" in 1999. The story "Improving The Neighbourhood" has the distinction of being the first fiction published in the journal ''Nature''. The titles "Venture to the Moon" and "The Other Side of the Sky" are not stories, but the titles of groups of six interconnected stories, each story with its own title. This collection is only missing a very few stories, for example " When the Twerms Came", which appears in his other collections ''More Than One Universe'' and '' The View from Serendip''. This edition contains a foreword by Clarke written in 2000, where he speculates on the science fiction genre in relation to the concept of short stories. Furthermore, many of the stories have a short introd ... [...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] |
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] |
Trouble With The Natives
"Trouble with the Natives" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. This comic story describes the pains of aliens visiting an English village, as every effort at contact with humans gets frustrated. The story was also published as "The Men in the Flying Saucer". This story has similarities with Clarke's other short stories "History Lesson" and "Rescue Party "Rescue Party" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in ''Astounding Science Fiction'' in May 1946. It was the first story that he sold, though not the first one published. It was republished in Clark ...": in all three pieces, aliens draw naive and humorous conclusions about humans from little information. External links * Short stories by Arthur C. Clarke 1951 short stories {{1950s-sf-story-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time's Arrow (short Story)
"Time's Arrow" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1950 in the first issue of the magazine '' Science Fantasy''. The story revolves about the unintended consequences of using time travel to study dinosaurs. The story was included in the 2005 anthology ''The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century''. The title matches Sir Arthur Eddington's second law of thermodynamics. Plot The story follows a group of scientists, two geologists (Barton and Davis) and a palaeontologist (Fowler), who are excavating dinosaur footprints. They come across two physicists (Barnes and Henderson) who are investigating a strange liquid that exhibits negentropy, which Davis describes as being akin to "Time's Arrow" as "Any clock you care to mention – a pendulum for instance – might just as easily run forward as backward. But entropy is a strictly one-way affair – it's always increasing with the passage of time. Hence the expression, 'Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nemesis (short Story)
In ancient Greek religion, Nemesis, also called Rhamnousia or Rhamnusia ( grc, Ῥαμνουσία, Rhamnousía, the goddess of Rhamnous), was the goddess who personifies retribution for the sin of hubris: arrogance before the gods. Etymology The name ''Nemesis'' is related to the Greek word νέμειν ''némein'', meaning "to give what is due", from Proto-Indo-European ''nem-'' "distribute". Family Nemesis has been described as the daughter of Oceanus, Erebus, or Zeus, but according to Hyginus she was a child of Erebus and Nyx. She has also been described, by Hesiod, as the daughter of Nyx alone. In the Theogony, Nemesis is the sister of the Moirai (the Fates), the Keres (Black Fates), the Oneiroi (Dreams), Eris (Discord) and Apate (Deception). Some made her the daughter of Zeus by an unnamed mother. In several traditions, Nemesis was seen as the mother of Helen of Troy by Zeus, adopted and raised by Leda and Tyndareus. According to the poet Bacchylides, she was the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking Strain
"Breaking Strain", also known as "Thirty Seconds - Thirty Days", is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949. It was adapted into a movie in 1994 under the title ''Trapped in Space''. Plot summary This shipwreck survival drama involves a space freighter on Earth/Venus run. A meteor hit during the middle of the voyage has drained most on-board oxygen supplies. The two crew members (Grant and McNeil) realize they will not have enough oxygen for the two of them to complete the trip. The two crew members live a few days in exclusion from each other, independently considering plans for survival. The story is primarily told from Grant's perspective (the ship's captain), who becomes frustrated with McNeil's apparent inconsiderate behavior. Eventually Grant realizes that there is enough oxygen on board for one crew member to finish the trip. He struggles with the idea of deciding who will live or die, though all the while believes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hide-and-Seek (short Story)
"Hide and Seek" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949 in the magazine ''Astounding Science Fiction''. It was subsequently published as part of a short story collection in '' Expedition to Earth'' in 1953. Summary "Hide-and-Seek" uses the story within a story format. The frame story is told in the first person, set in a future that has interplanetary travel and has recently seen an interplanetary war. The characters are out hunting when one, Kingman, attempts to shoot a squirrel which takes refuge behind the trunk of a tree. This reminds Kingman of an incident which happened to him during the recent war. Kingman then recounts the story (in the third person) of agent K-15 who was fleeing in a space craft with vital information, pursued by the space cruiser ''Doradus''. K-15 was 12 hours from a rendezvous with a capital ship, but the cruiser was only 6 hours behind him. To escape K-15 lands on the moon Phobos, sending his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Forgotten Enemy
"The Forgotten Enemy" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in the magazine ''New Worlds'', in August 1949.Bibliography: The Forgotten Enemy '''', retrieved June 12, 2011 It was included in Clarke's collection of science fiction short stories '''', in 1956. It shows a London professor lonely holding out in his native city that has been evacuated due to an upcoming |
The Lion Of Comarre And Against The Fall Of Night
''The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night'' are early stories by Arthur C. Clarke collected together for publication in 1968 by Harcourt Brace and by Gollancz in London in 1970, it has been reprinted several times. Both concern Earth in the far future, with a utopia A utopia ( ) typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members. It was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book ''Utopia (book), Utopia'', describing a fictional ...n but static human society. ''Against the Fall of Night'' was later expanded and revised as ''The City and the Stars'', one of Clarke's best-known works. ''The Lion of Comarre'' has a similar theme: it is about a dissatisfied young man in search of "something more" in a future society that believes it has discovered everything and ceases to advance. It does not, however, exist in the same 'future history' as ''Against the Fall of Night''. References * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transience (Arthur C Clarke Short Story)
"Transience" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1949 in the magazine ''Startling Stories''. It was later collected in '' The Other Side of the Sky'' and ''The Nine Billion Names of God''. Summary The story is told through scenes of three children playing on the same beach on Earth, but across vast gulfs of time. Development Clarke wrote that the story was inspired by one of A. E. Housman's poems as well as his childhood memories. Release "Transience" was first published in the July 1949 issue of ''Startling Stories''. The Beechhurst Press later published in the anthology volume ''Looking Forward'' in 1953. The story was also published in collections of some of Clark's work such as 1958's '' The Other Side of the Sky'' and 1961's ''From the Ocean, from the Stars''. In 2001 the University of Western Australia Press published "Transience" in the anthology ''Earth is But a Star: Excursions Through Science Fiction to the ... [...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] |
Inheritance (short Story)
"Inheritance" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, which was first published in 1947 in ''New Worlds'', no. 3, as by 'Charles Willis'. It was subsequently published in the British edition of ''Astounding Science Fiction ''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 C ...'' in 1949, and as part of a short story collection in '' Expedition to Earth'' in 1953. It is a science-fiction story about two spaceship accidents involving a test pilot. The story contains elements which might be construed as supernatural. The title refers to a son who takes up his father's profession. An interesting coincidence about this story from the 1940s is that the main payload rocket involved in the first accident is described in ways very similar to modern-day spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
