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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...
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A billion years into the future, Earth's oceans have evaporated, and humanity has all but vanished. The inhabitants of the City of Diaspar believe theirs is the last city, but there is no way to find out for sure. The city is completely closed off by a high wall, and nobody has left in millions of years. The last child born in the city in millions of years, Alvin is insatiably curious about the outside world. He embarks on a quest that leads him to...
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The food of the gods.--Maelstrom II.-- The shining ones.--The wind from the sun.--The secret.--The last command.--Dial F for Frankenstein.--Reunion.--Playback.--The light of darkness.--the longest science-fiction story ever told.--Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, esq.-- Love that universe.--Crusade.--The cruel sky.--Neutron tide.--Transit of earth.--A meeting with Medusa.