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Expedition to Earth | 
 enlarge | Author: Arthur Clarke
Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.
Category: Book
Buy Collectible: £9.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3084293
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Ballentine Books Trade Ed
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0345430735
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780345430731
ASIN: 0345430735
Publication Date: January 1, 1998
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: First Edition. First paperback edition. A fine book. Ballantine book # 52
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Amazon.co.uk Review
There are many ways of recapturing the sheer fun that science fiction could be back when it was not even a bit respectable, and the idea that Arthur C. Clarke would one day be Sir Arthur was more or less inconceivable. One of the best ways is to go back to a classic short story collection like this, with its bitterly ironic title story of archaeology and its misunderstandings, the classic "Breaking Strain" with its two spacemen struggling over supplies that will do for one, and "The Sentinel", the story that acted as the seed for the late Stanley Kubrick's collaboration with Clarke, 2001. Clarke always had a more delicate and poetic side, and this collection includes one of his finest stories in this vein "Second Dawn" in which telepathically gifted aliens without hands deal with the moral dilemmas of science. Many of the stories deal with a Space Age that never was--Clarke was assuming that things would happen later than they did, but that more would follow quicker; this in itself gives the book charm as an add on to its considerable conceptual wit. Few short story collections are SF classics, but this is a major exception. --Roz Kaveney
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Excellent! A must buy June 29, 2000
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Being a fan of many of Clarke's novels - The Rama Series, Cradle, Childhood's End, etc. - my dislike of short stories has put me off buying this book for a long time. Eventually I decided to buy it, as my collection doesn't leave much room for anything else. How could I have left it so long? This book is the excellence which is Clarke, such vivid detail in such short stories. All the stories in this book are great, my particular favourite is 'Second Dawn'. Buy it!
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