Scan barcode
A review by barryhaworth
The Other Side Of The Sky by Arthur C. Clarke
4.0
This collection of stories by Arthur C Clarke contains many of this classic and best known stories, such as "The Star", "The Nine Billion Names of God", "All the Time in the World" and "The Wall of Darkness", as well as some very memorable pieces of flash fiction, such as "Security Leak", "No Morning After" or "Publicity Campaign".
Other stories are less interesting. The collection contains two sets of linked short stories about the building of the first communication satellites and the first expedition to the Moon. These of historic interest as providing an alternative vision of how these things might have happened (if, for example, communication satellites in geostationary orbit were not transistorized and needed crews of technicians on site to maintain them) but are in general less well written, and on this reading I skipped several of the individual chapters.
Overall a good collection with many excellent stories, but not everything is equally worth reading.
Other stories are less interesting. The collection contains two sets of linked short stories about the building of the first communication satellites and the first expedition to the Moon. These of historic interest as providing an alternative vision of how these things might have happened (if, for example, communication satellites in geostationary orbit were not transistorized and needed crews of technicians on site to maintain them) but are in general less well written, and on this reading I skipped several of the individual chapters.
Overall a good collection with many excellent stories, but not everything is equally worth reading.