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The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990) |
 | Arthur C. Clarke |
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The topics change
from the Titanic to a giant octopus but a central one is the
Mandelbrot set. We are introduced to mathematician-cum-computer
wizard Edith Craig who invents software to fix the Y2K... (more) |
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Into the Comet (1960) |
 | Arthur C. Clarke |
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When a computer malfunction prevents the crew of a spaceship from being able to determine a trajectory back to Earth, they are forced to resort to using an abacus to aid in the computation. [Note that... (more) |
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The Last Theorem (2008) |
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| Arthur C. Clarke / Frederik Pohl |
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Ranjit Subramanian, the protagonist in this science fiction novel, is a young Sri Lankan man who (re)discovers a short and elementary proof of Fermat's Last Theorem while enduring torture during an unjust... (more) |
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The Light of Other Days (2000) |
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| Arthur C. Clarke / Stephen Baxter |
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Using the WormCam (a camera sent through a wormhole in space-time), it is
possible to witness any event that is taking or has taken place in the
universe. This makes privacy essentially an obsolete... (more) |
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The Nine Billion Names of God (1953) |
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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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As much about computers as it is about mathematics, we join two
programmers hired by a Buddhist sect seeking to find all true names of
God by exhausting a combinatorial library of possibilities.
Appears... (more) |
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The Pacifist (1966) |
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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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Clarke, one of the all-time biggest names in serious science
fiction, took time to write a series of humorous science
fiction tall tales. The stories are narrated by one Harry
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Quarantine (1977) |
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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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For safety's sake, all organic life on the planet Earth has been
wiped out by automatic defenses. The investigator looking into
this regrettable turn of affairs in an otherwise promising species
discovers... (more) |
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Rama II (1989) |
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| Arthur C. Clarke /Gentry Lee |
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This is the sequel to the novel Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke.
Short Summary:
The huge cylindrical Rama spaceship has returned 70 years after it
arrived near Earth for the first time.... (more) |
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Silence Please (1954) |
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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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In this
"White Hart" story, Purvis tells about an experimental
physicist who invents a highly successful antinoise generator.
The Fourier analysis underpinning of antinoise is explicitly
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Technical Error (1946) |
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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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During the last phases of construction, a huge supercooled superconducting generator is accidentally given a surge of current. At that moment, an engineer is at the center of its field and is somehow... (more) |
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The Wall of Darkness (1946) |
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| Arthur C. Clarke |
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In a universe consisting of one star and one planet, there is a
mysterious impenetrable wall surrounding the entire planet in the deep
freezing southlands. Two men, one with money, the other... (more) |
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