Re: Clarke - two questions

On 19 Mar 2008 17:43:22 GMT, nance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Anthony Nance)
wrote:

>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?

That's a hard list to beat, in both categories.  For "favorite"
I'd want to put _Fountains of Paradise_ in place of _Childhood's
End_.  For "seminal", CE has to stay, and I don't think FoP can
displace any of the others either.

If we do "seminal novels", that's easy, but I agree that his short
work is important.


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