Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
“Clarke The ParasiteFirst published in The Avon SF & F Reader, April 1953Collected in Reach for TomorrowThis may have been the subconscious basis for the novel The Light of Other Days which I have just published with Stephen Baxter.‘There is nothing you can do,’ said Connolly, ‘nothing at all. Why did you have to follow me?’ He was standing with his back to Pearson, staring out across the calm blue water that led to Italy. On the left, behind the anchored fishing fleet, the sun was setting in Mediterranean splendour, incarnadining land and sky. But neither man was even remotely aware of the beauty all around.Pearson rose to his feet, and came forward out of the little cafe’s shadowed porch, into the slanting sunlight. He joined Connolly by the cliff wall, but was careful not to come too close to him. Even in normal times Connolly disliked being touched. His obsession, whatever it might be, would make him doubly sensitive now.‘Listen, Roy,’ Pearson began urgently. ‘We’ve been friends fo...r twenty years, and you ought to know I wouldn’t let you down this time.MoreLess
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