The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

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The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
Dust-jacket from the 1st edition
Author	Arthur C. Clarke
Cover artist	Blacksheep
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction Short stories
Publisher	Gollancz
Publication date	January, 2001
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	x, 966 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-575-07065-X

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, (ISBN 0-575-07065-X), first published in 2001, is a collection of almost every science fiction story shorter than novel length that Arthur C. Clarke has ever published: more than 100 in all arranged in order of publication, from "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 journal Nature.

In addition to the printed edition, an audio edition was published by Fantastic Audio in 2001. The audio edition, comprising five volumes, runs nearly fifty hours.

[edit] 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"
• "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": "Genesis" spelled backwards.
• "The Steam-powered Word Processor"
• "On Golden Seas"
• "The Hammer of God"
• "The Wire Continuum" (with Stephen Baxter)
• "Improving the Neighbourhood"

[edit] References

• Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. The Locus Index to Science Fiction. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
• ISFDB. Retrieved on 2007-12-05.