For the Memoir by Farah Ahmedi, See The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir

The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir

The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir is a Memoir by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary. The Memoir profiles the life of Farah Ahmedi from the time she was born until she was seventeen years old.-Summary:Farah Ahmedi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan near the end of the Soviet war in Afghanistan...

The Other Side of the Sky (ISBN 0-451-14937-8) is a collection of short stories by science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 writer Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...

 originally published in 1958. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications.

Contents

• Bibliographical Note
• "The Nine Billion Names of God
  The Nine Billion Names of God
  "The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke. The story was the winner of the retrospective Hugo Award for Best Short Story for the year 1954.-Plot summary:...
  
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• "Refugee"
• The Other Side of the Sky (vignettes):
  • "Special Delivery"
  • "Feathered Friends"
  • "Take a Deep Breath"
  • "Freedom of Space"
  • "Passer-by"
  • "The Call of the Stars"
• "The Wall of Darkness"
• "Security Check"
• "No Morning After"
• Venture to the Moon
  Venture to the Moon
  Venture to the Moon is a group of six linked science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in Evening Standard in 1956. The stories describe the first manned mission to the Moon in 1975, as a joint American-Russian-British mission, and are narrated in first...
  
   (vignettes):
  • "The Starting Line"
  • "Robin Hood, F.R.S."
  • "Green Fingers"
  • "All That Glitters"
  • "Watch This Space"
  • "A Question of Residence"
• "Publicity Campaign"
• "All the Time in the World"
• "Cosmic Casanova"
• "The Star"
• "Out of the Sun"
• "Transience"
• "The Songs of Distant Earth"

Reception

Damon Knight

Damon Knight

Damon Francis Knight was an American science fiction author, editor, critic and fan. His forte was short stories and he is widely acknowledged as having been a master of the genre.-Biography:...

, although dismissing the vignettes as "without exception remarkably trivial," reported that the other stories "include some of Clarke's best work."