"Travel by Wire!" is a

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 story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke. His first published story, it was first published in December 1937 in the magazine ''

Amateur Science Stories ''Amateur Science Stories'' was a short-lived (three issues) science fiction fanzine notable for publishing Arthur C. Clarke's first stories, including " Travel by Wire!", "Retreat from Earth" and "How We Went to Mars". The latter story won the 1 ...

''. 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 Teleportation is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. It is a common subject in science fiction literature and in other popular culture. Teleportation is oft ...

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".

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* Short stories by Arthur C. Clarke 1937 short stories Works originally published in Amateur Science Stories Teleportation in fiction {{1930s-sf-story-stub