The Star | Social Sensitivity
"It is three thousand light-years to the Vatican," the story begins, and immediately the reader is far from home and far from now, caught up in a space journey. It is a journey the author makes many times in his writing, and nowhere more smoothly than in the opening sentence for this story.
In the author's foreword to his 1982 novel 2020: Odyssey Two, Clarke had much to say about the impact of space exploration on humanity.
No one could have imagined back in the mid-sixties, that the exploration of the moons of Jupiter lay, not in the next century, but...
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