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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780312878603
ISBN: 0312878605
Label: Orb Books
Manufacturer: Orb Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 976
Publication Date: January 14, 2002
Publisher: Orb Books
Sales Rank: 27594
Studio: Orb Books
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Rating:  - Arthur Clarke
As a snapshot of how science fiction changed in sixty years, this book is good. However many of the short stories with aliens that are insects, or have tentacles, just do not cut it.
Rating:  - Many and strange are the Universes that drift like bubbles in the foam upon the River of time
"Many and strange are the Universes that drift like bubbles in the foam upon the River of time. Some - a very few - move against or athwart its current; and fewer still are those that lie forever beyond its reach, knowing nothing of the future or the past. Shervane's tiny cosmos was not one of these; its strangeness was of a different order." Thus begins the "Wall of darkness" the 16th of the stories in this collection of 104 Science Fiction short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Rating: - A really good collection at a low price
I picked this book up at a Half-Price bookstore for like $10, and it was completely worth it. Any fan of Clarke or any SF fan should pick it up. There are many grammatical errors and a few omissions, but all in all it is a very good compilation of Arthur C. Clarke's work. It has all the short stories that eventually evolved into novels(i.e.The Sentinal, Songs of a Distant Earth, Guardian Angel, etc.), as well as many of the amusing White Hart tales. It's big and bulky but if you can find it at a ... Read More
Rating: - Great Archival Collection
This is one of the best single-author collections that I've ever read, and it's great for the Clarke fan. I particularly enjoyed the "White Hart" stories, some of Clarke's earliest works, taking place in a pub and told by engineers and scientists coming in for a pint. The collection in which they were published, Tales From the White Hart, is fairly hard to find.
If there are any problems with it, though, this is it: it's printed on fairly ratty paper and lacks that, I don't know, immutable ... Read More
Rating: - What could be better?
All of Clarkes short stories in one volume? What could better? I checked this out of the library and then bought my own copy after about a week. There are a few spelling errors, but who cares, really? All books have a few. This book is definetely worth having.
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