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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, Arthur C. Clarke. It includes 114 stories, arranged in order of publication, from "Travel by Wire! (short story), 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 scientific journal, journal ''Nature (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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is an affinity group for contributors with shared goals within the Wikimedia movement. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within Wikimedia project, sibling 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 Magazine, 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 outsi ... [...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 ...'' 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] |
Nemesis (short Story)
In ancient Greek religion and myth, Nemesis (; ) also called Rhamnousia (or Rhamnusia; ), was the goddess who personified retribution for the sin of hubris: arrogance before the gods. Etymology The name ''Nemesis'' is derived from the Greek word , ''némein'', meaning "to give what is due", from Proto-Indo-European *''nem-'' "distribute". Family According to Hesiod's ''Theogony'', Nemesis was one of the children of Nyx alone. Nemesis has been described as the daughter of Oceanus, Erebus, or Zeus, but according to Hyginus she was a child of Erebus and Nyx. 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 Byzantine poet Tzetzes, Bacchylides had Nemesis as the mother of the Telchines by Tartarus. Mythology Fortune and retribution The word ''nemesis'' originally meant the distributor of fortune, neither good nor bad, simply in ... [...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 utopian 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 A future history, imaginary history or anticipatory history is a fictional conjecture of the future used by authors of science fiction and other speculative fiction to construct a common background for stories. Sometimes the author publishes a t ...' as ''Against the Fall of Night''. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wall Of Darkness (short Story)
The following is a list of works by Arthur C. Clarke. Series ''Space Odyssey'' * '' 2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968) * '' 2010: Odyssey Two'' (1982) (Hugo and Locus Awards nominee, 1983) * '' 2061: Odyssey Three'' (1987) * '' 3001: The Final Odyssey'' (1997) Rama * ''Rendezvous with Rama'' (Hugo and Nebula Award) (1973) (BSFA and Nebula Awards winner, 1973; Hugo, Campbell, and Locus Awards winner, 1974) * ''Rama II'' (1989) (with Gentry Lee) * '' The Garden of Rama'' (1991) (with Gentry Lee) * ''Rama Revealed'' (1993) (with Gentry Lee) A Time Odyssey * '' Time's Eye'' (2003) (with Stephen Baxter) * '' Sunstorm'' (2005) (with Stephen Baxter) * ''Firstborn'' (2007) (with Stephen Baxter) Fiction Novels * ''Against the Fall of Night'' (1948, 1953) original version of ''The City and the Stars'' * ''Prelude to Space'' (1951) Reprinted in 1961 as ''Master of Space'' and as ''The Space Dreamers'' in 1969. * ''The Sands of Mars'' (1951) * ''Islands in the Sky'' (1952) * ''Childhood ... [...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, 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 event, 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 Snowball Earth, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curse (Clarke Story)
"The Curse" (also called "Nightfall") is a postapocalyptic short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1946. Plot summary The story is set in the immediate aftermath of a global nuclear war that has wiped out mankind and describes in great detail the devastation it has caused to a small town. In the end, the town is revealed as Stratford-upon-Avon, with the epitaph on the grave of William Shakespeare providing both the location and the title of the story. Employing a third-person objective narrator and a very matter-of-fact style, the story achieves a chilling effect despite completely omitting descriptions of human tragedy and suffering. Instead, it merely shows the bleakness of the completely depopulated ruins of the town and surrounding landscape, interspersed with sparse hints of how its destruction fit into the global events. Concepts like mutual assured destruction, nuclear overkill and (insufficient) missile defence Missile defense is a syst ... [...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'' in 1949, and as part of a short story collection in ''Expedition to Earth ''Expedition to Earth'' () is a collection of science fiction short story, short stories by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke. There are at least two variants of this book's table of contents, in different editions of the boo ...'' 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 sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
