Rescue Party by Arthur C. Clarke | Thread profile

Rescue Party by Arthur C. Clarke Preface by Eric Flint I'm certain this wasn't the first science fiction story I ever read, because I still remember those vividly. Three novels, all read when I was twelve years old and living in the small town of Shaver Lake (pop. 500) in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California: Robert Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy, Tom Godwin's The ...

The tension was very great as the party entered the first room, and only relaxed when they saw that it held nothing but machines—row after row of them, now stilled and silent. Lining the enormous room were thousands of metal filing cabinets, forming a continuous wall as far as the eye could reach. And that was all; there was no furniture, nothing but the cabinets and the mysterious machines. ...

the nearest heavy repair ship could not reach them for three weeks had also caused a slump in morale. The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible. Very slowly, over many hours, the great ship began to discard the speed its main drive had given it in as many minutes. In a tremendous curve, ...

Quote: Originally Posted by AMIN Twenty years afterward, the remark didn't seem funny. Man, I love this story, Arthur Clarke was a master.

It's an awesome story, almost all of his were

very nice find I think I got this in one of my books somewhere

Remember this one, yeah, piece of art.

I love this story. I wish there'd been a continuation.

It is a very good tale, but what the hell is this doing in the fanfiction forum?!?!?!?

Quote: It is a very good tale, but what the hell is this doing in the fanfiction forum?!?!?!? Quote: I love this story. I wish there'd been a continuation. And yes, fantastic story. I smile at the punch-card computer now, though.