This little eight-page story is not shocking or mind-blowing or even complex. I suppose I’m biased and would enjoy anything written by him. “He was leaning against the wind-smoothed stones and staring morosely at the distant mountains whose names he had never bothered to discover.”Īrthur C. Why is postmodernity so persnickitously contentious to our ideals? An ill wind was in the works for all of us back then.Īnd the unjolly midwinter, so nearly upon us, would be Bleak Indeed after all that:Īnd the curtain REALLY falls on us all like it did to me, at the end of this spooky story. If that were not enough, our own Once and Future King, JFK, would meet his doom a month from that grim October day.Īnd along with it, I guess, our Camelot was doomed. It was everywhere, home, classroom and ourselves. And that, in fact, was the zeitgeist all around me after the Cuban Missile Crisis the year before. How are our Mighty Mouse dreams fallen.īy the end of the story I was pacing my room.īecause of this dystopian tale, my green dreaminess swiftly became teen doom 'n gloom.

With a title like this, it must be deep!ĭeep and murky, sorta like my high school freshman daily regimen.

They were announcing this Sunday's program - an SF offering from one of my fave authors in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, which I usually gulped down each month like candy.īut I hadn't read this one. I twiddled the dial till I found our Canadian national radio broadcasting bandwidth. It was a dreamy fall morning in 1963 when I absently turned on my Grandfather's cabinet style old tube-technology radio. I'll try to remember the day I MYSELF heard it! There's a little surprise in my review, cuz I'm gonna gift you the story in AUDIOBOOK form at the end! Get ready. Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction.

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