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Tales from the White Hart
| Author: | Arthur C. Clarke |
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Ballantine Books, 1957 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
From outside it was simply an ordinary looking London pub, a place you'd have to be guided to more than once before you memorized it's location, somewhere between Fleet Street & the Embankment. But, if by chance, an insider led you to the White Hart on a Wednesday night, you would have found yourself in the midst of a select gathering or writers, editors, scientists & interested layman--drinking, swapping odd bits of information, &, like as not, listening to Harry Purvis' memorable stories.
A scientist by profession, Harry Purvis has had or heard about some of the most astonishing experiences--like the story of the carnivorous orchid that was used in a murder plot, or the one about the military computer that was converted to pacifism. There's SILENCE PLEASE, involving a spurned lover & a device that was supposed to destroy sound; & BIG GAME HUNT, in which an ambitious researcher becomes so wrapped up in his latest projest--controlling animal behavior with electrical impulses-- that he overlooks one tiny important detail. Such stories may challenge your powers of logic & strain your imagination. Yet even if you doubt their veracity, they're guaranteed to provide you with hours of SF reading. Baron Munchausen, step aside.
Table of Contents:
- Preface - (1957) - essay by Arthur C. Clarke
- Silence, Please! - (1950)
- Big Game Hunt - (1956)
- Patent Pending - (1954)
- Armaments Race - (1954)
- Critical Mass - (1949)
- The Ultimate Melody - (1957)
- The Pacifist - (1956)
- The Next Tenants
- Moving Spirit - (1957)
- The Man Who Ploughed the Sea - (1957)
- The Reluctant Orchid - (1956)
- Cold War - (1957)
- What Goes Up ... - (1956)
- Sleeping Beauty - (1957)
- The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch - (1957)
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