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Book Title
Tales from Planet Earth
Publication Name
Tales from Planet Earth
Title
Tales from Planet Earth
Author
Arthur C. Clarke
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0743423798
EAN
9780743423793
ISBN
9780743423793
Publisher
Ibooks, Incorporated
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Science Fiction / General
Release Year
2011
Release Date
02/07/2011
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
229mm
Item Length
9in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Publication Year
2001
Item Width
6in
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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If you want an omnibus of short fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master, then you want The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. If you're looking for a representative sample of Clarke's short stories, or for some examples of the creative and extrapolative abilities that established Clarke as one of science fiction's greatest and most important writers, then check out Tales from Planet Earth. Tales from Planet Earth ranges widely across time, but the stories are centered on our home world. Many SF writers confine their visions of earth to its flatlands, but Clarke is three-dimensional; his stories "Hate," "The Deep Range," and "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea" plunge into the ocean, while "The Cruel Sky" ascends the Himalayas. Some stories, like "The Other Tiger" and "'If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth...'," end on chilling twists. "The Road to the Sea" spans centuries and millennia to explore how humanity's exodus to the stars may affect the world left behind. "Hate" considers how transcendence of the Earth's atmosphere may affect ancient enmities. "The Parasite" demonstrates a scary nastiness not usually associated with Clarke. "The Wall of Darkness" is set on an alternate-universe earth so different from ours, and "The Lion of Comarre" is set in a future so far away, that both stories feel like fantasy; but both are rigorously extrapolated from scientific theory. Two lighthearted entertainments, "The Next Tenants" and "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea," are from Tales of the White Hart. All of the stories in Tales from Planet Earth are recommended. The iBooks 2001 Anniversary Edition of Tales from Planet Earth collects 14 SF stories first published between 1950 and 1987, including the satire "On Golden Seas," which has "never before [been] collected in any Clarke book." - Cynthia Ward Review "Here...is a collection of Arthur's science fiction stories, science fiction dealing with science, extrapolated intelligently. How you will enjoy it!" ISAAC ASIMOV "The fiction of Arthur C. Clarke has spanned the universe. He has carried us across unimaginable distances to alien times and places. Yet he has not lost sight of his home. Many of his greatest stories are set-or have their roots-right here on Planet Earth. In this book, Clarke's best stories about our home planet are gathered together. For Arthur C. Clarke, more than any other science fiction writer, "home" is the entire Earth, through all of space and time. In this book, he shows us around his home to share his wonder. He invites us to share his vision and his dream. About the Author Arthur C. Clarke is the author of many seminal works of science fiction, most notably; 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY.

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Publisher
Ibooks, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0743423798
ISBN-13
9780743423793
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Tales from Planet Earth
Author
Arthur C. Clarke
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes

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