Arthur C. Clarke - Imperial Earth

364 Pages·2016·0.6 MB·English

by  Clarke Arthur C

Also by Arthur C. Clarke
published by Ballantine Books:
EARTHLIGHT
EXPEDITION
TO EARTH
PRELUDE T©
SPACE
REACH FOR
TOMORROW
RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA
TALES FROM THE "WHITE HART"
CHILDHOOD'S END
IMPERIAL
EARTH
I
'L
Arthur
C.
Clarke
A Del Rey Book
BALLANTINE BOOKS · NEW YORK
A Del Rey Book
tklblished by Ballantine Books
Copyight © 1976 by Arthur C. Clarke
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic
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storage and retrieval system, without permission in
writing from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Published in
the United States by Ballantine Books, a division of Random
House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by
Random House of Canada, Limited, Toronto, Canada.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 7530595
ISBN 0345289153
This edition published by arrangement with
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, inc.
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Ballantine Books Edition: November 1976
Seventh Printing: November 1982
First Canadian Printing: December 1976
Cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes
For a Jost frlend
"Remember them as they were;
write them
--Ernest Heming
CONTENTS
I T TAN
h
A SHRIEK IN THE NIGHT
2.
DYNASTY
3.
INVi1'ATION TO
A CENTENNIAL
4.
THE RED MOON
5.
THE POLITIC:S OF TIME AND SPACE
6.
BY THE BONNY, BONNY BANKS
OF
LOCH HELLBREW
7.
A CROSS OF TITANITE
8.
CHILDREN OF THE CORRIDORS
9.
THE FATAL GIFT
10.
WORLD'S END
Il TRANSIT
I I. SiRiUS
12. LAST WORDS
13. THE LONGEST VOYAGE
14. SONGS OF EMPIRE
i$. AT THE NODE
16. PORT VAN ALLEN
!11 TERRA
17.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
18.
EMBASSY
MOUNT VERNON
20.
THE TASTE OF HONEY
HISTORY LESSON
22,
BUDGET
23.
DAUGHTERS O THE REVOLUTIONS
2
II
16
19
39
45
51
60
67
71
80
84
92
I00
106
119
125
130
137
24. GALINDY
144
25.
MYSTERY TOUR
152
26.
PRIMEVAL FOREST
162
27.
THE GHOST FROM THE GRAND
BANKS
174
28.
AKHENATON AND
CLEOPATRA
182
29.
PARTY GAMES
185
30.
THE RIVALS
196
:3 I.
THE ISLAND OF
DR.
MOHAMMED
202
32.
GOLDEN
REEF
209
33.
SLEUTH
218
34.
STAR DAY
223
35.
A MESSAGE FROM TITAN
229
36.
THE EYE OF ALLAH
236
37.
MEETING AT CYCLOPS
242
38.
THE LISTENERS
251
39.
BUSINESS AND DESIRE
260
40.
ARGUS PANOPTES
271
41.
INDEPENDENCE DAY
285
42. THE MIRROR OF THE SEA
291
Tn'^
43. HOMECOMING
300
Acknowledgments and Nofes
302
Additional Nofe
305
For every man has business and desire.
--HAMLET, Act I, Scene r