The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

by Arthur C. Clarke

There is no shock greater than that of the totally unexpected, for against it the mind has no chance to prepare its defences.

Now there are some forms of apparel that may be worn or discarded as the fancy pleases with no other ill effects than a possible loss of social prestige. But spacesuits are not among them.

Truth.

Purvis jammed the pipe back in his mouth.

His pipe is a vaporizer!

It’s the old story of the eternal triangle, complicated by the villagers’ resentment of change—in this case, the new telegraph system, which the local crones predict will Do Things to the cow’s milk and cause trouble at lambing time.

An eternal truth .

Jon says there are so many thousands of hours of it stored up that I’ll never know when it repeats itself.

MP3 player

But men cannot bargain with Fate, and choose peace or adventure as they wish.

Truth

“the desperate and the human with the disparate and the technological” in a way which has always been unique to our genre.

Nice

But Mrs Martin had only to turn a switch and the concealed projectors would give her any view she wished, together with the sounds that went with it.

VR

Tycho City

This city is mentioned in Star Trek First Contact.

Sphere of Annihilation,

I'll Be damned.

polaroid glasses

POV sonar. Nice. A type of augented reality in context.

Kodachrome.

Color film by brandname. lol Kodachrome -> Kodach -> Kodak

Eventually science must be able to catch and store thoughts and sensations themselves, and feed them back into the mind so that, whenever it wishes, it can repeat any experience in life, down to its minutest detail.’

The premise of the movie Brainstorm.

Space Force

Nailed the name.

sauceriana.

I like the word.

giving a kind of X-ray picture of the hidden strata

Technology like this exists now.

went into a certain cavern in the Kentucky hills.

Mammoth cave?

circuits

Ah, back when digital computers were new and programming not well defined.

type of portable canine which ladies like to carry in their handbags.

I didn't realize this was already a thing pre-1956.

There was no way, then, in which Hercules could express his pent-up feelings.

This is an emerging theme in the Tales fromthe White Hart. The danger that lies at the intersection of science and emotion.

ken.

Thus word is still used in KY sometimes.

H. G. Wells entitled ‘The Flowing of the Strange Orchid’.

I want to read this.

banks of oscillators and mixers

A synthesizer.

If he is to be a dead end, I think that another race should be given a helping hand.

The premise of the Uplift saga.

‘What animals can go without sleep?’

Dolphins and whales sleep only half of their brain at time. They're always awake .

Both crew and engine breathed through a snorkel tube, so there was no need to bother about electric motors and an independent air supply.

Wouldn't Work. Moving air that far underwater requires active pumping .

‘Uranium.

Handling uranium bare handed and unshielded. Lol

you can never underestimate the power of panic.

Truth.

And owing to a switching error Russian subtitles were superimposed on the South American transmission, while half the USSR found itself trying to read Spanish.

Tower of Babel

It is even more futile to speculate about the unchangeable past than the unforeseeable future;

Truth

radio mirror

The move from optical to radio telescopes creeps in here.

But I’d have looked like such a fool, standing there on tiptoe with my arms wrapped around her knees.

And there's always the risk of death by snoo snoo.

Thalassa, a freak among worlds with its single large island in a shoreless sea.

I like it.

But into my heart blows a cold wind from the past; for I remember Babylon.

Isn't It curious that tHe internet instead of broadcast that made this real?

there were men aboard Challenger who could multiply four-figure numbers on the abacus in fifteen seconds, and keep it up hour after hour.

Manual distributed prossessing at 0.25 operations per second. Lol

we’d like you to check our arithmetic—before we work our fingers to the bone!’

Hahaha.... Snort.

This means getting some chemicals made up at the drugstore, and doing exactly what the book says.

Not today you wouldn't . Lol

star mangled spanner.’

Groans

simp

circa 2022 this is a funny word choice.

Never before had he been so close to a simp, and able to study its features in such detail. He felt that strange mingling of kinship and discomfort that all men experience when they gaze thus into the mirror of time.

Hahaha

by the year 2010 every citizen of the United States would be born a million dollars in debt.

Glad that's not true .

Shirley Bassey emerged from retirement with a new version of her most famous song.

All just a little bit of history repeating .

lens-corrective laser shaping which

RK

‘You have to destroy the object you’re going to radio-transport.

The premise for the novel The Punch Escrow.