The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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Synopsis
A collection of virtually every short story of Arthur C. Clarke. See Structure for links to some of them.
Review
The stories are of varying quality, although most are very good (and some are truly excellent). As this is a compilation, it's hard to give a verdict, but I definitely recommend it to you if you're a Clarke fan.
Table of contents
- Travel by Wire!
- How We Went to Mars
- Retreat from Earth
- Reverie
- The Awakening
- Whacky
- Loophole
- Rescue Party
- Technical Error
- Castaway
- The Fires Within
- Inheritance
- Nightfall
- History Lesson
- Transience
- The Wall of Darkness
- The Lion of Comarre
- The Forgotten Enemy
- Hide-and-Seek
- Breaking Strain
- Nemesis
- Guardian Angel
- Time's Arrow
- A Walk in the Dark
- Silence Please
- Trouble with the Natives
- The Road to the Sea
- The Sentinel
- Holiday On the Moon
- Earthlight
- Second Dawn
- Superiority
- 'If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth...'
- All the Time in the World
- The Nine Billion Names of God
- The Possessed
- The Parasite
- Jupiter Five
- Encounter In the Dawn
- The Other Tiger
- Publicity Campaign
- Armaments Race
- The Deep Range
- No Morning After
- Big Game Hunt
- Patent Pending
- Refugee
- The Star
- What Goes Up
- Venture to the Moon
- The Pacifist
- The Reluctant Orchid
- Moving Spirit
- The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch
- The Ultimate Melody
- The Next Tenants
- Cold War
- Sleeping Beauty
- Security Check
- The Man Who Ploughed the Sea
- Critical Mass
- The Other Side of the Sky
- Let There Be Light
- Out of the Sun
- Cosmic Casanova
- The Songs of Distant Earth
- A Slight Case of Sunstroke
- Who's There?
- Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting...
- I Remember Babylon
- Trouble With Time
- Into the Comet
- Summertime on Icarus
- Saturn Rising
- Death and the Senator
- Before Eden
- Hate
- Love That Universe
- Dog Star
- Maelstrom II
- An Ape About the House
- The Shining Ones
- The Secret
- Dial F for Frankenstein
- The Wind from the Sun
- The Food of the Gods
- The Last Command
- The Light of Darkness
- The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told
- Playback
- The Cruel Sky
- Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq.
- Crusade
- Neutron Tide
- Reunion
- Transit of Earth
- A Meeting With Medusa
- Quarantine
- siseneG
- The Steam-Powered Word Processor
- On Golden Seas
- The Hammer of God
- The Wire Continuum (with Stephen Baxter)
- Improving the Neighbourhood