That requires as much power as a small radio transmitter--and rather similar skills to operate. For it's the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler's career as a dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sleep, filled his brain night and day? Nothing brutal, you appreciate. Yet, in the final analysis, just as irresistible as a tritium bomb.
Arthur C. ClarkeIf such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: sci-fii
["The Devil in the Dark"] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: fear politics science-fiction danger politicians star-trek
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: religion
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
Arthur C. ClarkeThose wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: science-fiction arthur-c-clarke
I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.
Arthur C. ClarkeSome women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting. It was bad enough when they were motionless; but when they started to move, and sympathetic vibrations set in, it was more than any warm-blooded male should be asked to take. Some women, Commander Norton had decided long ago, should not be allowed aboard ship; weightlessness did things to their breasts that were too damn distracting. It was bad enough when they were motionless; but when they started to move, and sympathetic vibrations set in, it was more than any warm-blooded male should be asked to take. He was quite sure that at least one serious space accident had been caused by acute crew distraction, after the transit of a well-upholstered lady officer through the control cabin.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: arthur-c-clarke rendezvous-with-rama
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ...
Arthur C. ClarkeBut please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
Arthur C. ClarkeTag: truth fiction strange weird
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