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 Expedition to Earth - Arthur C. Clarke
Newest Review: ... her nuclear weaponry. Second Dawn, the opening work, is also in a stage between the end of a bad war and the beginning of a ... more  ... worse apocalypse - just as Clarke and many others would have seen the Earth post Hiroshima. This story is more science fantasy, as the characters are non-humanoid.
Superiority tries to be humorous about the follies of technology as used for warfare, as so much thought is given to advancement of weaponry the basics are ignored. Immediately after that is Nemesis, which has about as long a timeline as a 20 page story can. A Hitler-type tyrant with lots of technology to his hand, instead of shooting himself in his b...more |
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Expedition to Earth - Arthur C. Clarke: The (Fool's) Golden Age (1191 words)
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Reading recently about the golden age of science fiction, theediscerning realised he ought to go one better and actually read some of the fiction involved. Of course, however, there have been at least two golden ages, depending on whose reckoning you use. First the original spawning of the genre on a large scale with the 1920s and '30s American short story magazines, then the period a few years later when the big names emerged. And of those none is bigger, on this side of the Atlantic at least, than Arthur C Clarke. Bejaysis, he's British for one (or was until he became a naturalised Sri Lankan), he invented the geostationary satellite and helped develop ... Read the complete review
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