Sir Arthur C[harles] Clarke - Reach for Tomorrow - 6

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Reach for Tomorrow

This collection of a dozen of Clarke's early short stories is a bit of a mixed bag. The best of them are thought provoking but none of them do much to develop empathy for the characters and none of them could really by called compelling. Many of these stories are more about revealing a clever scientific concept than storytelling.

My favorites were "Rescue Party" (Clarke's first published story, about alien starfarers who explore an about to be destroyed Earth), "A Walk in the Dark" (a story about a man walking through a pitch black alien landscape wondering whether something is going to get him), and "Trouble With the Natives" (a reasonably humorous first contact story). “Jupiter Fiveâ€