Tales of Ten Worlds

Tales of Ten Worlds is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications.

Tales of Ten Worlds

Cover of the first edition
Author	Arthur C. Clarke
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Harcourt Brace
Publication date	1962
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	245 pp

Contents

This collection, originally published in 1962, includes the following:

• "I Remember Babylon"
• "Summertime on Icarus"
• "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting..."
• "Who's There?"
• "Hate"
• "Into the Comet"
• "An Ape about the House"
• "Saturn Rising"
• "Let There be Light"
• "Death and the Senator"
• "Trouble With Time"
• "Before Eden"
• "A Slight Case of Sunstroke"
• "Dog Star"
• "The Road to the Sea"

Reception

Avram Davidson received the collection favorably, praising Clarke's stories saying "Few writers in the field handle science with such knowledge as to be so convincing, such deftness as never to place stumbling-blocks, and with such clarity of style as to appear to have none at all."[1]

Editions

• Arthur C. Clarke (1962). Tales of Ten Worlds. Harcourt Brace. pp. 245 pp.
• Arthur C. Clarke. Storie di Terra e Spazio (collana Urania n° 1039 ed.). Mondadori. ISBN 88-7819-669-X.

References

1. "Books", F&SF, October 1963, p.22

• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 102. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

External links

• Tales of Ten Worlds title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 6, 2001. Retrieved January 27, 2007.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)