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Tales from the White Hart is a 1957 collection of short stories by Arthur C. Clarke. Rather different from his standard hard science fiction fare, Tales is a collection of stories—tall tales, really, in the English tradition of the "pub tale"—told by the bloviating, impossibly well-connected, and utterly enchanting Harry Purvis, at The White Hart, a pub at which London's SF fandom hung out in The '40s and The '50s. It's all told to us by an Expy of Clarke himself ("Charles Willis", one of his pseudonyms).Fifteen White Hart stories are included in the collection: "Silence Please" - About a student who invents active noise control and uses it to pull a tremendous prank. "Big Game Hunt" - Some scientists invent a device which can control animals' movements by reproducing the electrical signals, but there has to be an electrical connection. They go out in the Atlantic, use the signals to force a giant squid to come to the surface, and film it - but the apparatus suddenly fails, and before they can get it started again, the understandably pissed-off squid sinks the ship. "Patent Pending" - About a man who invents VCR for the brain. "Armaments Race" - The guy in charge of props for a B-grade science fiction show develops a fake death ray that's supposed to create an impressive-looking electrical arc which actually works and destroys the studio, forcing said individual to make a hasty exit. "Critical Mass" - A truck crashes near a facility where various very dangerous substances are manufactured and stored, and wrecks. The truck driver and some pedestrians both do a Don't Ask, Just Run. The locals in town conclude that they can panic now, and start to evacuate when someone volunteers to go up there and finds out it's time to Bee Afraid. "The Ultimate Melody" - About inventing the ultimate Ear Worm. "The Pacifist" - About the invention of a military computer "The Next Tenants" - A scientist on a Pacific atoll is teaching termites how to use tools and human technology. "Moving Spirit" - About a novel method of distilling and aging whisky. "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea" "The Reluctant Orchid" - About a seemingly dangerous carnivorous orchid. "Cold War" - A submarine is hired by the California Chamber of Commerce to arrange an iceberg sighting off the coast of Florida. They end up in over their heads. "What Goes Up" - About some Australians who invent Anti-Gravity by accident "Sleeping Beauty" - About a man who is given a drug that causes him to not require sleep. "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch" - Wouldn't you like to find out! Tropes present in this anthology: | |
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