![]() ![]() Now, notes about each story in order.Ġ1-”The Nine Billion Names of God” – This tale describes a mishmash of religious views researched and encouraged by Tibetan Buddhist monks, and it ends O.Henry style. Second, “The Wall of Darkness” (#10 in this volume) was so engaging that I would very much like to enjoy it again in novel form or, if it’s ever been attempted, as a film. First, “I Remember Babylon” (#2 in this volume) is perhaps the most prophetic supposition of a coming moral collapse at the hands of entertainment as I’ve ever seen. I’ll jot down a few notes about each of the twenty-five stories in this volume, but I must highlight two as special favorites. This collection of short stories constitute his own personal favorites out of the hundreds he’d published by then, and it came to me at a time when the vistas of space were regularly on mind. ![]() ![]() Clarke, the “colossus of science fiction” (319), that appeal to the imagination. While sci-fi isn’t my norm (especially sci-fi written before man ever landed on the moon), there’s just something about the yarns of Arthur C. ![]()
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