Tales of Ten Worlds is a collection of short stories by science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 writer Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...

. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications.

Contents

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

• "I Remember Babylon
  I Remember Babylon
  "I Remember Babylon" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke. It was first published in 1959 and reprinted in the 1962 collection Tales of Ten Worlds.-Plot summary:...
  
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• "Summertime on Icarus
  Summertime on Icarus
  "Summertime on Icarus" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1960. It was also published under the title "The Hottest Piece of Real Estate in the Solar System".-Plot summary:...
  
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• "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting..."
• "Who's There?"
• "Hate
  Hate (short story)
  "Hate" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1960 and subsequently included in several collections of Clarke's writings, including The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. The story originated when movie producer William MacQuitty asked Clarke to write a film...
  
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• "Into the Comet
  Into the Comet
  "Into the Comet" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1960. It is one of several stories by many science fiction authors in which problems are solved by reverting to 'primitive' technology...
  
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• "An Ape about the House"
• "Saturn Rising"
• "Let There be Light"
• "Death and the Senator
  Death and the Senator
  "Death and the Senator" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in 1960 and has since been included in several collections of Clarke's writings.-Plot summary:...
  
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• "Trouble With Time"
• "Before Eden"
• "A Slight Case of Sunstroke"
• "Dog Star
  Dog Star (short story)
  "Dog Star" is a 1961 science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke about an astronomer and his dog, Laika. The story was also published under the title "Moondog".-Plot summary:...
  
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• "The Road to the Sea"

Reception

Avram Davidson

Avram Davidson

Avram Davidson was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche...

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."