The Star | Literary Qualities
There seems to be general agreement among critics and readers that either "The Star" or "The Nine Billion Names of God" is Clarke's best short story. But his own preference is for "Transit of Earth," according to the liner notes he wrote for a recording of all three stories. These stories were written during the early 1950s, while Clarke still lived in Britain.
Clarke wrote many stories that had their genesis in a single line of dialogue or a comprehensible invention. "The Nine Billion Names of God," for example, makes reference to a literary invention of Lord Dunsany: the...
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