Language English Preceded by "The Next Tenants" Genre Science Fiction Country United Kingdom | Publication date 1957 Originally published 1957 Series Tales from the White Hart Publisher Ballantine Books | |
Published in Tales from the White Hart Followed by "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea" Similar Arthur C Clarke books, Other books | ||
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"Moving Spirit" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957. The story within a comic story is narrated by Harry Purvis, who is called to assist a scientist relative of his in a trial. The scientist has been brought before the court on charges of illegally brewing liquor. Purvis manages to get him acquitted, by arguing that he was actually working on a fictional "osmotic bomb." Purvis demonstrates this bomb by exploding it in the courtroom, thus "accidentally" destroying all the evidence. However, the scientist is later booked for driving under the influence.
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The piece is one of two original stories written for Clarke's collection Tales from the White Hart, the other being "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch." Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale praised the collection as "as light and frothy a conglomeration of sidesplitters as it has been my good fortune to read."