Re: Clarke - two questions

Thomas Womack <twomack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Anthony Nance <nance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>- Childhood's End
>>- The City and the Stars
>>- The Nine Billion Names of God (collected short stories, 1951-56)
>>- 2001: A Space Odyssey
>>- Rendezvous With Rama
>>
>>It is not said why they stuck to 1953-73.
>>
>>So, two slightly different questions:
>>1) Without the year restriction, what five Clarke works would
>>   you list as "seminal titles" in his body of work?
>
>I think those are the seminal ones (at least, the only one you could
>possibly debate is _The City and the Stars_; _The Fountains of
>Paradise_ might be able to take its place, but doesn't have the same
>class of scope)

Whereas I'd definitely leave TC&tS on the list, but might swap out TFoP
for
another of his short-story collections, and RwR for Imperial Earth. But
that's
personal taste.

Dave
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