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Dimensions: 7" x 4 1/4" x 1/2"
Catagory: Science Fiction - Short Stories
Description: Arthur C. Clarks Favorite Short Stories - Titles: Nine Billion Names of God, Trouble with Time, No Morning After, The Possessed, Encounter at Dawn, The Sentinel (the story which inspired 2001: a Space Odyssey and Many More....
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Nine Billion Names of God (1952) – 4/5: Nepalese monks hire an IBM computer to print all possible nine letter words in a special language which could be the name of their god. 7 pages
I Remember Babylon (1959) – 3/5: Non-fictional story from Clarke about his conversation with a telecommunications traitor to the USSR and their plans for the unrestricted American airwaves. 11 pages
Trouble with Time (1959) – 3/5: Upon reaching your Mars destination, please reset your watch to the local Martia... (show more)
Nine Billion Names of God (1952) – 4/5: Nepalese monks hire an IBM computer to print all possible nine letter words in a special language which could be the name of their god. 7 pages
I Remember Babylon (1959) – 3/5: Non-fictional story from Clarke about his conversation with a telecommunications traitor to the USSR and their plans for the unrestricted American airwaves. 11 pages
Trouble with Time (1959) – 3/5: Upon reaching your Mars destination, please reset your watch to the local Martian Standard Time. 6 pages
Rescue Party (1945) - 5/5: Menagerie of aliens on a solar system exploration ship stumbles upon a sun about to go nova- Earth's sun. They whisk away to Earth to rescue anyone they can, only to realize that no one is there except the intact structures and subway system. Being that the humans have only had radio for 200 years, where could those humans have gone? 25 pages
The Curse (1946) - 3/5: Narrator in post-nuclear Europe describes the scene in a quaint town where a tombstone lays facing an approaching river. Who is buried there? 3 pages
Summertime on Icarus (1960) – 3/5: ‘Advice at the front of the Spaceman’s Manual- “When you don’t know what to do, do nothing.”’ 11 pages
Dog Star (1961) – 3/5: Man’s best-friend remains faithful beyond death in the memory of a scientist in a moon base. 6 pages
Hide and Seek (1948) – 3/5: Hunter recalls tale of a spy in pursuit towards Mars and the spy’s clever survival on the moon on Phobos. 11 pages
Out of the Sun (1957) – 4/5: Solar observation center on Mercury views a solar energy phenomenon. 7 pages
Wall of Darkness (1946) – 5/5: Be sure to approach the dark unknown with enough tools, instruments and money to throw at the problem. Can the village philosophers untangle the mystery and tape the pieces together? 18 pages
No Morning After (1953) – 4/5: A drunk receives dire message from the stars. Does he shrug it off and hit the bottle or does he warn the populous? Ask yourself which would make a better story. 6 pages
The Possessed (1951) - 3/5: A Swarm of alien energy-like intelligences falls to Earth after escaping their stars destruction. One part of the Swarm begins to evolve a lizard while the rest sweep across the sea of stars to find a suitable intelligent host. What will become to the lizard's evolution and the rest of the Swarm's quest? 5 pages
Death and the Senator (1960) – 3/5: Senator confronts his eventual death in a myriad of ways, comes to peace with it but is interrupted by a doctor who says he may be able to be saved. 20 pages
Who’s There (1958) – 3/5: Why cats make bad pets on earth or in space. 5 pages
Before Eden (1960) – 4/5: Alien life on polar Venus proves to be resourceful. 11 pages
Superiority (1948) – 4/5: War-torn aliens find themselves eager for new weapons, which they develop and try to implement, only to be defeated little by little by the persistent human force. 11 pages
A Walk in the Dark (1945) - 4/5: A man confronts his imagination during a 4-mile walk in the pitch dark on a galaxy-edged planet, when he remembers a haunting tale of chitinous sounds beyond the arc of a flashlight... too bad he doesn't have a flashlight. 10 pages
Call of the Stars (1957) – 3/5: Man seeks space-borne self-determination against the advice of his father. 4 pages
Reluctant Orchid (1954) – 5/5: Wimpy Hercules becomes the owner of a carnivorous orchid but is persistently visited by his masculine aunt and her behemoth dogs. Shall we attempt to put one and tone together? 9 pages
Encounter at Dawn (1950) – 2/5: Galactic Survey discovers another human-like species on a distant planet. How to befriend a simpleton, gain his trust and leave him in your dust. 11 pages
“If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth…” (1950) – 3/5: Child reflects on humanity’s post-apocalyptic planet with hopes of a brighter tomorrow. 5 pages
Patent Pending (1953) – 2/5: Bar tale of a French invention which can record emotions. Lesson- Don’t drink the drug you deal. 10 pages
The Sentinel (1948) – 4/5: Lunar geologists spot a reflective point on a mountain and head off to investigate (being the trailblazer for 2001: Space Odyssey, you can imagine what it is). 10 pages
Transience (1947) – 5/5: Drawn to the sea for destined for the stars. 6 pages
The Star (1954) – 4/5: Priest exploring supernovae remnants finds a revelation. 6 pages (show less)
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I thought it was pretty good. It wasn't as amazing as his other books since the science is way behind the times for most of the stories at this point. Oh well, it can be hard to envision the technology of tomorrow.
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