Tales From The White Hart
By Arthur C Clarke
$8.00
From outside it was simply an ordinary looking London pub, a place you’d have to be guided to more than once before you memorised it’s location, somewhere between Fleet Street and the Embankment.
But, if by chance, an insider led you to the White Hart on a Wednesday night, you would have found yourself in the midst of a select gathering or writers, editors, scientists and interested layman — drinking, swapping odd bits of information, and, like as not, listening to Harry Purvis’ memorable stories.
A scientist by profession, Harry Purvis has had or heard about some of the most astonishing experiences — like the story of the carnivorous orchid that was used in a murder plot, or the one about the military computer that was converted to pacifism. There’s Silence Please, involving a spurned lover and a device that was supposed to destroy sound; and Big Game Hunt, in which an ambitious researcher becomes so wrapped up in his latest project — controlling animal behaviour with electrical impulses — that he overlooks one tiny important detail. Such stories may challenge your powers of logic and strain your imagination. Yet even if you doubt their veracity, they’re guaranteed to provide you with hours of SF reading. Baron Munchausen, step aside.
Contents:
– Silence Please (1950)
– Big Game Hunt (1956)
– Patent Pending (1954)
– Armaments Race (1954)
– Critical Mass (1949)
– The Ultimate Melody (1957)
– The Pacifist (1956)
– The Next Tenants (1957)
– Moving Spirit (1957)
– The Man Who Ploughed the Sea (1957)
– The Reluctant Orchid (1956)
– Cold War (1957)
– What Goes Up (1956)
– Sleeping Beauty (1957)
– The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch (1957)
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