Tales of Ten Worlds
1962 collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke
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Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
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Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Harcourt Brace |
Publication date | 1962 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardcover) |
Pages | 245 pp |
Tales of Ten Worlds is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications.
Contents
This collection, originally published in 1962, includes the following:
- "I Remember Babylon"
- "Summertime on Icarus"
- "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting..."
- "Who's There?"
- "Hate"
- "Into the Comet"
- "An Ape about the House"
- "Saturn Rising"
- "Let There be Light"
- "Death and the Senator"
- "Trouble With Time"
- "Before Eden"
- "A Slight Case of Sunstroke"
- "Dog Star"
- "The Road to the Sea"
Reception
Avram Davidson received the collection favorably, praising Clarke's stories saying "Few writers in the field handle science with such knowledge as to be so convincing, such deftness as never to place stumbling-blocks, and with such clarity of style as to appear to have none at all."[1]
Editions
- Arthur C. Clarke (1962). Tales of Ten Worlds. Harcourt Brace. pp. 245 pp.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1988). Storie di Terra e Spazio (collana Urania n° 1039 ed.). Mondadori. ISBN 88-7819-669-X.
References
- ^ "Books", F&SF, October 1963, p.22
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 102. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.
External links
- Tales of Ten Worlds title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- "Sir Arthur C. Clarke at MysteryVisits.com". Archived from the original on October 6, 2001. Retrieved January 27, 2007.
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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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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
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