Re: Clarke - two questions

"Anthony Nance" <nance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Today's USAToday has a very nice half-page appreciation article
> (written by Cesar G. Soriano, special for USAToday).
>
> There's an in-set box titled "1953-73: A Collection of Clarke Titles",
> and subtitled "Arthur C. Clarke's expansive body of work includes
> these seminal titles:".  Listed are these five works:
>
> - 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?
> 2) What are your five favorite Clarke works?
>
> As far as I'm concerned, listing short stories is absolutely fine.
>
> Tony, still thinking on his answers to those two questions, largely
>      because the short stories are rather out of focus

Obligatory A. C. Clarke story reference in the news:  Who remembers the 
"White Hart" story about how Harry Purvis prevented the evacuation of 
southern England?  "Critical Mass", a short story in the collection, tells

what happens when a group of scientists are sitting in a pub near their 
Atomic Energy Research Establishment, and the landlord spots a truck 
descending a hill out of control, apparently carrying crates from the
plant? 
There is a crash.  They break open, a strange aura is seen, the driver
runs 
like hell to get away, and ...

A brief news story found in the London Times Tuesday:
Bees on the loose

SACRAMENTO Twelve million bees escaped after an articulated lorry carrying

crates of the insects overturned on Highway 99 in California, police said.

Officers and firefighters were stung by some of the bees as they tried to 
deal with the accident. (AP)


-- 
Mike Dworetsky


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