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British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws, of which the third law is the best known and most widely cited. They are part of his ideas in his extensive writings about the future.
Newton's laws of motion, three physical laws that, together, laid the foundation for classical mechanics The laws of thermodynamics , originally three physical laws describing thermodynamic systems, though a fourth one was later formulated and is now counted as the zeroth law of thermodynamics
[1] [2] [3] A more fundamental statement was later labelled as the zeroth law after the first three laws had been established. The zeroth law of thermodynamics defines thermal equilibrium and forms a basis for the definition of temperature: if two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third system, then they are in thermal equilibrium ...
Tales from the White Hart is a collection of short stories by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, in the "club tales" style.. Thirteen of the fifteen stories originally appeared across a number of different publications; some had no connection to the White Hart in their original version.
The story follows a group of scientists, two geologists (Barton and Davis) and a palaeontologist (Fowler), who are excavating dinosaur footprints.They come across two physicists (Barnes and Henderson) who are investigating a strange liquid that exhibits negentropy, which Davis describes as being akin to "Time's Arrow" as "Any clock you care to mention – a pendulum for instance – might just ...
Wrote Afterword; novel is based on Clarke's short story Maelstrom II. Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime Vol. 3: Hide and Seek; Paul Preuss, 1989. Wrote Afterword; novel is based on Clarke's short story Hide-and-Seek. Visions of Space; 1989. Wrote Foreword. Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime Vol. 4: The Medusa Encounter; Paul Preuss, 1990.
Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale described the collection as "an excellent cross-section of the art of one of science fiction's foremost exponents." [2] Anthony Boucher, however, characterized most of the shorter pieces as inferior work, excluded from Clarke's previous collection, but praised two (unspecified) novelettes as "uniquely authentic Clarke."
More Than One Universe: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke originally published in 1991.. The stories originally appeared in the periodicals Playboy, Vogue, Dude, New Worlds, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Dundee Sunday Telegraph, Analog, Amazing Stories, Galaxy Science Fiction, Infinity Science Fiction ...