Product Description In addition to the well-known and ever popular stories "The Other Side of the Sky," "I Remember Babylon," and "The Songs of Distant Earth," this volume features comic cosmic narratives originally collected in Tales From the White Hart, including "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch," "The Next Tenants," and "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea." About the Author Arthur C. Clarke is considered to be the greatest science fiction writer of all time. He is an international treasure in many other ways: An article written by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Mr. Clarke--both fiction and nonfiction--have more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide. He lives in Sri Lanka."From the Trade Paperback edition." From AudioFile The first part of this volume, the fourth in a series, consists of a collection of barroom yarns told from the highly suspect memories of regular Harry Purvis. Midway through, the tone changes, and the stories, including the title one, move onto more serious ground. Both the playful and the serious stories are handled well by the narrators. My favorites, choosing two from many gems, are "The Ultimate Melody," a Purvis yarn about a tune that literally won't leave one's mind, and "Summertime on Icarus," about a brush with death on an asteroid plunging toward the sun. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine--Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine