Travel by Wire! (short story)
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"Travel by Wire!" is Arthur C. Clarke
's first published story. It was first published in December 1937 in the magazine Amateur Science Stories
. It was subsequently published as part of a short story collection in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1955. This story is a humorous record on the development of the "radio-transporter" (actually a teleportation
machine), and the various technical difficulties and commercial ventures that resulted.
In The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
, Clarke calls the story (as well as his other early writings) "a kind of absolute zero from which my later writing may be calibrated".
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,...
's first published story. It was first published in December 1937 in the magazine Amateur Science Stories
Amateur Science Stories
Amateur Science Stories was a short-lived science fiction fanzine notable for publishing Arthur C. Clarke's first stories, including Travel by Wire!, Retreat from Earth and How We Went to Mars....
. It was subsequently published as part of a short story collection in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1955. This story is a humorous record on the development of the "radio-transporter" (actually a teleportation
Teleportation
Teleportation is the fictional or imagined process by which matter is instantaneously transferred from one place to another.Teleportation may also refer to:*Quantum teleportation, a method of transmitting quantum data...
machine), and the various technical difficulties and commercial ventures that resulted.
In The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, , first published in 2001, is a collection of almost every science fiction story shorter than novel length that Arthur C. Clarke has ever published: with 114 in all arranged in order of publication, "Travel by Wire!" in 1937 through to "Improving the...
, Clarke calls the story (as well as his other early writings) "a kind of absolute zero from which my later writing may be calibrated".