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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is probably my second-favorite Clarke book, after Tales from the White Hart. (  ) TadAD | Jun 25, 2008 |  Another 50-50ish Clarke collection, with around half the pieces average or so, with the best for last in the case. Only a 3.27 average here. So, rounding up to get to 3.5 with this one. Expedition To Earth : Second Dawn - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : If I Forget Thee Oh Earth - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : Breaking Strain - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : History Lesson - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : Superiority - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : Exile of the Eons - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : Hide and Seek - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : Expedition to Earth - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : Loophole - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : Inheritance - Arthur C. Clarke Expedition To Earth : The Sentinel - Arthur C. Clarke Composite Mind War accomodation. 3.5 out of 5 Independent attitude required. 3 out of 5 Star Queen meteor holed poison survival choice. 3.5 out of 5 Glacial only bad on one planet, even if puzzling for the other. 3 out of 5 Weapons tech advance space war failure. 3.5 out of 5 Master suspended animation time banishment. 3 out of 5 Military Intelligence Phobos evasion story. 3.5 out of 5 Generation gap leavetaking. 3.5 out of 5 Earth weapons report. Oops. 3 out of 5 Long fall landing. 2.5 out of 5 Moon machine. 4 out of 5 http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/02... ( ) bluetyson | Feb 28, 2008 | I don't think there's a better book by Arthur C. Clarke than this. These stories are taut, memorable, moving, full of the pain of one form or another of exile. Sure, there are one or two amusing throwaways, but has there ever been a more poignant story of homesickness than "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth", or a more bleakly ironic memorial to human folly than the closing paragraphs of the title story? If you, like I, have found much of Arthur C. Clarke's late work less than inspiring, read these early stories to discover what a tremendous writer he was at his peak. (  ) timjones | Feb 13, 2008 | The first collection of Clarke's science fiction short stories, and it's a good one. It includes one of Clarke's best stories, "The Sentinel", which was the genesis for "2001: a Space Odyssey". "Loophole" is kind of a hoot, combining legal wrangling with interplanetary conquest. I can't remember reading a mediocre Clarke story, and I remember several of sublime power and effect. (  ) burnit99 | Jan 4, 2007 | I JUST LOVE THIS MAN'S WRITINGS ( ) tedrick | Dec 31, 1969 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0345284674, Mass Market Paperback)There are many ways to recapture the sheer fun that science fiction was back when it wasn't even a bit respectable and the idea that Arthur C. Clarke would one day be Sir Arthur was more or less inconceivable. One of the best ways is to go back to a classic short story collection like this, with its bitterly ironic title story of archaeology and its misunderstandings--the classic "Breaking Strain" in which two spacemen struggle over supplies that will do for one--and "The Sentinel," the story that acted as the seed for the late Stanley Kubrick's collaboration with Clarke, 2001.Clarke always had a more delicate and poetic side, and this collection includes one of his finest stories along this vein, "Second Dawn," in which telepathically gifted aliens without hands deal with the moral dilemmas of science. Many of the stories address a Space Age that never was--Clarke was assuming that things would happen later than they did, but that more would follow quicker; this in itself gives the book charm as an add-on to its considerable conceptual wit. Few short story collections are SF classics, but this is a major exception. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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