''Tales of Ten Worlds'' is a collection of
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...
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:
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I Remember Babylon
"I Remember Babylon" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was first published in ''Playboy'' in May 1960, and reprinted in the 1962 collection ''Tales of Ten Worlds''.
Plot summary
The story takes the form of a ...
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Summertime on Icarus"
* "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting..."
* "Who's There?"
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Hate
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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 whic ...
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* "An Ape about the House"
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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 pu ...
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Let There be Light
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Death and the Senator"
* "Trouble With Time"
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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 translat ...
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* "A Slight Case of Sunstroke"
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Dog Star"
* "The Road to the Sea"
Reception
Avram Davidson
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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
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, October 1963, p.22
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1962 short story collections
Short story collections by Arthur C. Clarke