The Best of Arthur C. Clarke
1973 collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke
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Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
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Cover artist | Chris Foss |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Sidgwick & Jackson |
Publication date | 1973 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 336 |
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937-1971 is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke originally published in 1973.
The stories, written between 1937 and 1971, originally appeared in a number of periodicals including Amateur Science Stories, Zenith, The Fantast, Fantasy, Startling Stories, Astounding, Science Fiction Quarterly, 10 Story Fantasy, Infinity Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Evening Standard, Vogue, Analog, If, Boys' Life and Playboy.
Contents
The contents include:
- 1933: A Science Fiction Odyssey
- "Travel by Wire!"
- "Retreat from Earth"
- "The Awakening"
- "Whacky"
- "Castaway"
- "History Lesson"
- "Hide and Seek"
- "Second Dawn"
- "The Sentinel"
- "The Star"
- "Refugee"
- Venture to the Moon
- "The Starting Line"
- "Robin Hood, F.R.S."
- "Green Fingers"
- "All That Glitters"
- "Watch This Space"
- "A Question of Residence"
- "Into the Comet"
- "Summertime on Icarus"
- "Death and the Senator"
- "Hate"
- "Sunjammer"
- "A Meeting with Medusa"
- Bibliography
References
- "ISFDB". Retrieved 2007-12-06.
- Contento, William G. "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition". Retrieved 2007-12-06.
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- Prelude to Space
- The Sands of Mars
- Islands in the Sky
- Against the Fall of Night
- Childhood's End
- Earthlight
- The City and the Stars
- The Deep Range
- A Fall of Moondust
- Dolphin Island
- Glide Path
- Imperial Earth
- The Fountains of Paradise
- The Songs of Distant Earth
- Cradle (with Gentry Lee)
- The Ghost from the Grand Banks
- The Hammer of God
- Richter 10 (with Mike McQuay)
- The Trigger (with Michael Kube-McDowell)
- The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter)
- The Last Theorem (with Frederik Pohl)
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Rama series |
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A Time Odyssey |
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collections
- Expedition to Earth
- Reach for Tomorrow
- Tales from the White Hart
- The Other Side of the Sky
- Tales of Ten Worlds
- The Nine Billion Names of God
- Of Time and Stars
- The Wind from the Sun
- The Best of Arthur C. Clarke
- The Sentinel
- Tales from Planet Earth
- More Than One Universe
- The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
- Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics
- The Lost Worlds of 2001
- The View from Serendip
- The Odyssey File: The Making of 2010
- How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village
- An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (comics)
- 2010: The Year We Make Contact (film)
- The Nine Billion Names of God (short film)
- Rendezvous with Rama (video game)
- "The Star" (TV episode)
- The Songs of Distant Earth (album)
- Rama (video game)
- Childhood's End (TV miniseries)
- Arthur C. Clarke in media
- Sir Arthur Clarke Award
- Arthur C. Clarke Award
- Geostationary orbit
- Clarke's three laws
- Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
- Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers
- Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe
- Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
- God, the Universe and Everything Else
- Great Basses wreck
- 4923 Clarke
- Serendipaceratops
- GRB 080319B