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Country United States Publication date 1953 Pages 167 pp Cover artist Richard M. Powers | 3.9/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Paperback) Originally published 1953 Publisher Ballantine Books | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genres Short story, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Arthur C Clarke books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Expedition to Earth (ISBN 0-7221-2423-6) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke.
Contents
There are at least two variants of this book's table of contents, in different editions of the book. Both variants include the stories "History Lesson" (1949) and "Encounter in the Dawn" (1953), but only one story is included under its own title; other story is included under the title "Expedition to Earth". Variants differ in the story that is included under its own title.
Contents
This collection, originally published in 1953, includes:
Reception
Boucher and McComas selected the collection as one of the best sf books of 1953, praising the stories' "humor, technical ideas, science-fictional thinking and all-around excellence." P. Schuyler Miller praised it as "an excellent collection . . . span[ning] the whole range of [Clarke's] talents. Writing in the Hartford Courant, reviewer R. W. Wallace declared that the stories "show [Clarke] as a more skilled literary artist" than even his novel Childhood's End had.