Tales from the White Hart - Arthur C. Clarke

Written by Arthur C. Clarke
Read by Mike Grady, Nick Boulton, Roger May, Sean Barrett
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

This is my recreation of an audiobook which hasn’t actually been released.

Arthur C. Clarke published a dozen short story collections, most are unrelated stories. The two exceptions are Venture to the Moon (1956) and Tales from the White Hart (1958).

All of the stories from these books are included in “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke” which I uploaded in my recent Clarke omnibus torrent.

This is edited down from that. The Harry Purvis stories are spread out, mingled with others and in a different order to the original “Tales of the White Hart” book so I have gathered them together & put them in the original book order.

I have also added in ‘Let There Be Light’, the one Harry Purvis story written after the book came out.

VBR AAC MONO M4B - Target bitrate 128kbps

TALES FROM THE WHITE HART

From outside it was simply an ordinary-looking London pub, a place you’d have to be guided to more than once before you memorized its location, somewhere between Fleet Street and the Embankment.

But if, by chance, an insider led you to the White Hart on a Wednesday night, you would have found yourself in the midst of a select gathering or writers, editors, scientists and interested laymen—drinking, swapping odd bits of information, and, like as not, listening to Harry Purvis’ memorable stories.

A scientist by profession, Harry Purvis has had or heard about some of the most astonishing experiences—like the story of the carnivorous orchid that was used in a murder plot, or the one about the military computer that was converted to pacifism.

There’s SILENCE PLEASE, involving a spurned lover and a device that was supposed to destroy sound; and BIG GAME HUNT, in which an ambitious researcher becomes so wrapped up in his latest projest - controlling animal behavior with electrical impulses, that he overlooks one tiny important detail…

Such stories may challenge your powers of logic and strain your imagination. Yet even if you doubt their veracity, they’re guaranteed to provide you with hours of SF reading. Baron Munchausen, step aside.

Contains: Silence Please; Big Game Hunt; Patent Pending; Armaments Race; Critical Mass; The Ultimate Melody; The Pacifist; The Next Tenants; Moving Spirit; The Man Who Ploughed the Sea; The Reluctant Orchid; Cold War; What Goes Up; Sleeping Beauty; Let There Be Light & The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch