Tuesday, 13 September 2016

Geoffrey's private reading

I am reading The Collected Short Stories of Arthur C Clarke
A composition of a lot of short stories from the author from the first to the last short story he had written
So far, I have read 'Travel by Wire' and 'How we went to Mars' and both stories so far are so diverse from each other. It gets you thinking about the theories and sciences of space as well as other types of life that could exist. 13/9

1 Week in, and each story I read, tells a different story of the problems or dreams or even reality of what is happening in terms of space exploration. For example, 'Reverie' was about the dreams of what space could be like, of what he wants it to be, but wakes up to find out that his dreams are just a dream. Another example could be 'Loophole' which isn't a short story at all, but a transcript of imaginary letters written from important earthlings to aliens on mars on Earth doing too many exploration flights to mars and that if not stopped, the aliens will obliterate Planet Earth. The short stories also vary in length. Some 4 sides and some more then 40 pages. So far, A highly recommended book for someone who is interested in sci-fi but wants stories that are short and snappy. 19/9

Two weeks since I have updated this book. Since this I have read another three short stories of this book. However, these 3 stories have nothing special worth publicizing this time. I am reading less on this book as I am migrating some reading time to my other book, mentioned above. 4/10

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