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A compendium of science fiction stories that combine elements of comedy and horror, including "Silence Please," "Critical Mass," and "What Goes Up."
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Classical in form, spare, cool and plot-driven.
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- Author
- Arthur C. Clarke
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 173
- Publisher
- Sidgwick and Jackson, Del Rey, Harcourt, Brace & World
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780283986246
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“You come upon the "White Hart" quite unexpectedly in one of these anonymous little lanes leading down from Fleet Street to the Embankment.”
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. These along with his science fiction writings eventuall
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