Book ✓ The Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke È Arthur C. Clarke
Author of 2001 A Space Odyssey Childhood's End The City and the Stars and the Hugo and Nebula Award winning Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive He is with H G Wells Isaac Asimov and Robert A Heinlein one If you're into stuff like this you can read the full reviewTrove of Clarke's Goodies The Collected Stories by Arthur C ClarkeThere are many early 20th century writers whose SF and fantasy continue to be read todayThe very successful literary writer James Branch Cabell would find half his novels categorized as fantasy today including his most famous Jürgen Though he predates the period the eually talented Robert Chambers was an excellent literary fantasist; his book the King in Yellow had vast influence over the 20th century weird fiction sub genre including the lesser writer H P Lovecraft whose works are still enormously influential
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The Collected Stories of Arthur C ClarkeHlight The Nine Billion Names of God and The Sentinel kernel of the later novel and movie 2001 A Space Odyssey all the way to later work like A Meeting with Medusa and The Hammer of God this immense volume encapsulates one of the great SF careers of all ti It's weird that my first book of 2020 should be a 966 page volume but for the record I was reading it for most of December I love Clarke's short stories I grew up on them and it was a pleasure to read so many of them all at once It's interesting that a lot of the truly great ones The Sentinel The Star The Nine Billion Names of God Venture to the Moon are all very early on He becomes less prodigiously prolific with time so the last ten or so stories cover 1970 2000 and none of the late ones really stand out save perhaps Dial F for Frankenstein which seems derivative only because Clarke did it firstRandom observations of course Clarke's vision of the future is vastly dated like Asimov he seemed to think computers would get bigger and bigger not smaller and he really thought Mars was just around the corner after the Moon Famously he understood technological change but not social change his stories set in far distant futures or even jolly old 2020 have fifties nuclear families and social s He is spectacularly catastrophically sexist Across nearly a thousand pages I spotted exactly one story with a main character who is an adult woman whose role in the story is not to be a foil to a man Mostly they're sexist by omission; it's the White Hart stories the shaggy dog story style stories from the mid fifities that I found shockingly appallingly misogynist If you want to skip one in this collection make it The Defenestration of Ermintrude InchThat said if you can put that aside it's hard not to feel a lot of affection for his warm and loving stories set in an optimistic Golden Age And while I am not ualified to comment on Clarke as a ueer writer of SF in his historical context he was a ueer SF writer and possibly the most influential of all time I'm pleased to know it