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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The single best collection of SF short stories in existence,
By Roger J. Buffington (Huntington Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (Hardcover)
These are stories by Arthur C. Clarke mainly written during the "Golden Age of SF" during the 1940s through 1960s era. There are many in here which are simply classics, to which the discerning reader will return many times. Most of these stories are friends of my youth, and I spent many hours entertaining myself reading these stories, in a time when there were no computers, internet, and only three television channels (and only one TV in the house!)The list of five-star classics in this rather large piece is too long to list here in its entirety. To name just a few, "Superiority," "Rescue Party," "The Parasite," The Songs of Distant Earth" (later made into a fine novel), "Dog Star" (have some tissue handy for this one!), and many others. Clarke at his best probably mastered the short-story format better than most, or perhaps any, of the other giants of SF's Golden Age. The best of these stories have a wistful, poetic thread about them, coupled with Clarke's unbounding imagination and often startling speculations about technology and Mankind's future. You don't want to miss this one. It belongs in every SF aficionado's library. |
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Collected Stories by Arthur C. Clarke (Hardcover - January 4, 2001)
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