Imperial Earth (Arthur C. Clarke Collection)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00AHHW7RA
Publish date: November 30th 2012
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Pages no: 303
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Anthologies,
Space,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction,
Collections,
Hard Science Fiction
This isn't one of Clarke's more strongly plotted novels, and at over thirty-five years old, well, it's inevitably already quite dated in lots of details. But Clarke's imaginative vision of humanity's future, his descriptions of the wonders of Titan (one of Saturn's moons) and Earth both, makes for g...
Nutshell: copy of a copy of the colonial administrator on Titan travels to Earth to make yet another copy of himself, gets re-involved in love triangle, gives congressional speech at US quincentennial, &c.Doesn't ever really get off the ground for me. Not until the final third of the volume does t...