,’”) to such “alien fables” of technological complacency as “Superiority” and “Before Eden.” Rescue PartyĪmong them, “Rescue Party,” his second professionally published story, looks forward to other tales of human progress and alien contact, but it is unusual in its strong story line and alien viewpoint. Most of his best and best-known stories are included, from the haunting rite of passage of a young lunar exile getting his first glimpse of the unapproachably radioactive world of his ancestors (“‘If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth. At its best, however, Clarke’s work shows glimpses of humanity’s rise to interplanetary civilization or evokes the wonder, in suitably subdued tones, of confrontations with extraterrestrial intelligences.Ĭlarke’s 1967 collection of his “favorites” represents many facets of his career, from the raconteur of tall tales and ghost stories to the fantasist, the sentimentalist, the realist, and the poet of wonder. Wells, the poetic evocation of unknown places of Lord Dunsany, and the immense vistas of space and time of the philosopher Olaf Stapledon lie cheek-by-jowl with artificial suspense devices, awkward sentimentality, schoolboy silliness, and melodramatic manipulation of such hoary motifs as the “stranded astronaut” or the “end of the world” in his less distinguished fiction. The matter-offact description of the marvelous of H. Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) sometimes forges an uneasy alliance between the two in his own stories. Ships from Southampton, New York.Exposed in his childhood to both the pulp magazines of Hugo Gernsback and the English literary tradition of fantasy and science fiction, Arthur C. All books packed carefully and ships with free delivery confirmation/tracking. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. A very nice collectible copy of this classic early Clarke title.
Jacket art by Edmund Alexander Emshwiller (“EMSH”). No writing, highlighting, underlining, dog ears, etc. Book is very fine clean, tight, sharp corners, bright spine lettering.
Blue marbled cloth boards with gold stamped spine lettering. Book Condition: Collectible - Like New Publisher: Gnome Press, 1954.
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