"More Than One Universe" (collection): Annotated table of contents, & review
Here is the complete list of all the 66 stories in this collection:
- "I Remember Babylon" (C); Playboy, March 1960: Dated cold war story - Soviets have got a new propaganda medium.
- "Summertime on Icarus" aka "The Hottest Piece of Real Estate in the Solar System" (A); Vogue, June 1960: Shipwreck & rescue on an asteroid currently rather close to Sun.
- "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting"
- "Who’s There?"
- "Into the Comet" aka “Inside the Comet”
- "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.
- "Let There Be Light"
- "Death and the Senator"
- "Trouble with Time"; "First published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1960, as 'Crime on Mars'": Attempt at an ordinary theft in a museum is foiled due to an unusual confusion.
- "Before Eden"
- "A Slight Case of Sunstroke" (A); "First published in Galaxy, September 1958, as 'The Stroke of the Sun'": Humor. Description of a football match in South America.
- "Dog Star" (B); "First published in Galaxy, April 1962, as 'Moondog'": A man feels sad after preferring own career over his dog.
- "The Nine Billion Names of God": Prayer kills the universe!
- "Refugee" aka “This Earth of Majesty”
- "The Other Side of the Sky"
- "Special Delivery"
- "Feathered Friend"
- "Take a Deep Breath"
- "Freedom of Space"
- "Passer-By"
- "The Call of the Stars"
- "Security Check"
- "No Morning After"
- "Venture to the Moon"
- "The Starting Line" aka “Double-Crossed in Outer Space”
- "Robin Hood, FRS" aka “Saved! By a Bow and Arrow”
- "Green Fingers" aka “Death Strikes Surov”
- "All That Glitters" aka “Diamonds! ... and then divorce”
- "Watch This Space" aka “Who Wrote That Message to the Stars? ...in Letters a Thousand Miles Long?”
- "A Question of Residence" aka “Alone on the Moon”
- "All the Time in the World"
- "Cosmic Casanova" (A); Venture, May 1958: Humor. A playboy meets his match.
- "The Star": Star of an alien world explodes, killing local intelligent beings. But something survives.
- "Out of the Sun"
- "Transience": Sun has moved close to galactic center & is about to be swallowed by a Nebula. Humans must vacate solar system, & find home elsewhere.
- "The Songs of Distant Earth" (novel?)
- "The Food of the Gods" (B), Playboy, May 1964: Humor. A corporate FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) campaign.
- "Maelstrom II" (A); Playboy, April 1962: Thriller. A man on board a flyer destined to crash has only one option to survive - jump!
- "The Shining Ones"
- "The Wind from the Sun" aka “Sunjammer”
- "The Secret" aka "The Secret of the Men in the Moon" (B); "This Week", 11 August 1963: How to live 3 times longer?
- "The Last Command" (C); Bizarre! Mystery Magazine, November 1965: A cold war nuclear holocaust story where US completely decimates USSR.
- "Dial F for Frankenstein" (A); Playboy, January 1964: A monster of an AI is accidentally born!
- "Reunion" (B); Infinity #2, 1971: Long lost cousins of humanity are coming to earth for a reunion.
- [ss] "Playback" (A); Playboy, December, 1966: Reincarnation is not possible with a corrupt mind dump!
- "The Light of Darkness"
- "The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told" aka “A Recursion in Metastories” (C): A recursive letter.
- "Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq" (C); If, December 1967: Who was the real author of "The Anticipator"?
- "Love That Universe" (B); Escapade, 1961: Humans in dire peril need to make first contact with aliens!
- "Crusade" (A), The Farthest Reaches, ed Joseph Elder, 1968: On a lonely cold world, evolution has produced an AI. And it's out on a crusade to free other AIs from their non-mechanical overlords (like humans).
- "Neutron Tide" (B); Galaxy, May 1970: Educational story, about how strong gravity gradient of a neutron star affects material.
- "Transit of Earth" (A), Playboy, January 1971: A man watches the transit of earth & moon on the disk of sun - from mars - during a rare alignment that happens once in 100 years. Tragic story - he is the sole man on mars, & about to die.
- [novella] "A Meeting with Medusa" (A); Playboy, December 1971: Exploring the upper atmosphere of Jupiter in a manned vehicle.
- "When the Twerms Came"
- "Quarantine" (A); Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Spring 1977: Humor. Alien robots destroy earth because they were getting infected with a funny virus.
- "siseneG": A joke rather than a story.
- "Rescue Party": Clarke's first published story. And a smaller version of "The Songs of Distant Earth".
- "The Curse" aka “Nightfall”: Sad & nostalgic. Fate of a bombed city.
- "Hide-and-Seek": A sole man is on the run on Phoboes (Phobos?), a Martian moon. He is being hunted by a well armed military unit. Will he be able to outwit his pursuers?
- "The Possessed": Intellect in the abstract!
- "Superiority": Humor. How not to deploy new technology.
- "A Walk in the Dark": Circumstances force a man to face the primeval fear of darkness.
- "The Reluctant Orchid": A murder gone wrong, because the novel weapon used was untested.
- "Encounter at Dawn" aka “Encounter in the Dawn”aka "Expedition to Earth": Aliens land on earths with intention to advance early humans technologically. But have to leave in a hurry, without helping.
- "Patent Pending" aka “The Invention”: A man invents the ultimate porn distribution machine.
- "The Sentinel" aka “Sentinel of Eternity”: Aliens watching the development of intelligent life on earth have left a beacon on moon.
More Than One Universe, collection, review
Author: Arthur C Clarke
First published: 1991
PS: I haven't personally seen this book; list of stories above was picked up from the net. I include this collection here so I know the stuff I have not yet read.
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