"Of Time and Stars" (collection): Annotated table of contents
Here is the complete list of all the 18 stories in this collection by Arthur C Clarke:
- "The Nine Billion Names of God": A certain Buddhist sect believes that the ultimate purpose of life is to spell all the nine billion names of God.
- "An Ape About The House" (B): A genetically modified female Chimpanzee, trained for house hold chores & babysitting, is purchased by a household. But she turns out to be more talented than the humans suspected.
- "Green Fingers"
- "Trouble with the Natives" (also called "Three Men in a Flying Saucer"): Humor. When aliens visited a little English village.
- "Into the Comet"
- "No Morning After"
- "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth": All humans are dead after a nuclear war, & earth's surface is radio active. Only survivors are a small group of pioneers that were on moon at the time of the event. They must preserve the legend of earth.
- "Who's There?"
- "All the Time in the World"
- "Hide and Seek": A sole man is on the run on Phoboes, a Martian moon. He is being hunted by a well armed military unit. Will he be able to outwit his pursuers?
- "Robin Hood, FRS"
- "The Fires Within": A man begins exploring interior of earth. And dooms humanity's future.
- "The Forgotten Enemy": Coping with the next Ice Age.
- "The Reluctant Orchid": A murder gone wrong, because the novel weapon used was untested.
- "Encounter at Down": Aliens land on earths with intention to advance early humans technologically. But have to leave in a hurry, without helping.
- "Security Check"
- "Feathered Friend"
- "The Sentinel" (also called "Sentinel of Eternity"): Aliens watching the development of intelligent life on earth have left a beacon on moon.
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