Tales from the White Hart

Tales from the White Hart is a collection of short stories by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications.

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Science fiction - Arthur C. Clarke

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The White Hart is a pub (modelled on the White Horse, Fetter Lane, just north of Fleet Street, once the weekly rendezvous of science fiction fans in London) where Harry Purvis tells a series of tall tales.

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This collection, originally published in 1957, includes:

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• Preface
• Silence Please
• Big Game Hunt
• Patents Pending
• Armaments Race
• Critical Mass
• The Ultimate Melody
• The Pacifist
• The Next Tenants
• Moving Spirit
• The Man Who Ploughed the Sea
• The Reluctant Orchid
• Cold War
• What Goes Up
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch