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"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards.
“Well, they believe that when they have listed all His names—and they reckon that there are about nine billion of them—God’s purpose will have been achieved. The human race will have finished what it was created to do, and there won’t be any point in carrying on. Indeed, the very idea is something like blasphemy.”
‘The Nine Billion Names of God’ is a short story by the British-born science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). It was first published in the 1953 anthology Star Science Fiction Stories #1, before being collected in Clarke’s The Other Side of the Sky.
The Nine Billion Names of God is a collection of science-fiction short stories published in 1974 by the English author Arthur C. Clarke. Most of the stories in the collection were written in the late 1940s and ’50s.
THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD -- A short-term course for computer the way to God. TROUBLE WITH TIME -- Martian time proves that crimes doesn't pay! NO MORNING AFTER -- Drink, drink and be merry, for tomorrow there will be no morning after... THE POSSESSED -- Or, why the lemmings drowned.
The Nine Billion Names of God (1967) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke. According to Clarke's 1972 book The Lost Worlds of 2001 , the book comprises his own selection of favorites.
Jun 9, 2010 · The nine billion names of God; the best short stories of Arthur C. Clarke : Clarke, Arthur Charles, 1917- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Clarke, Arthur Charles, 1917- Publication date. 1967. Topics. Science fiction, English. Publisher. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World. Collection.
