The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2000)
“Clarke Volume I: History Lesson Castaway First published in Fantasy, April 1947, as by ‘Charles Willis’ Collected in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937–1955 Walter H. Gillings, editor of Fantasy, was also the editor of Tales of Wonder, the first British sf magazine. More importantly, he gave me my first typewriter, which I carried home on a London bus from his home in Ilford. And he is the only editor I ever encountered who turned a story down, saying it was too good for him—and a rival editor w...ould pay more.
‘Most of the matter in the universe is at temperatures so high that no chemical compounds can exist, and the atoms themselves are stripped of all but their inner electron screens. Only on those incredibly rare bodies known as planets can the familiar elements and their combinations exist and, in all still rarer cases, give rise to the phenomenon known as life.’—Practically any astronomy book of the early 20th Century.
The storm was still rising. He had long since ceased to struggle against it, although the ascending gas streams were carrying him into the bitterly cold regions ten thousand miles above his normal level.MoreLess
‘Most of the matter in the universe is at temperatures so high that no chemical compounds can exist, and the atoms themselves are stripped of all but their inner electron screens. Only on those incredibly rare bodies known as planets can the familiar elements and their combinations exist and, in all still rarer cases, give rise to the phenomenon known as life.’—Practically any astronomy book of the early 20th Century.
The storm was still rising. He had long since ceased to struggle against it, although the ascending gas streams were carrying him into the bitterly cold regions ten thousand miles above his normal level.MoreLess
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