Status Updates From The Collected Stories

Reverie - A motivational essay that explores themes of science fiction and imagination, encouraging writers to think beyond the conventional and find wonder in the familiar. Philosophical in tone.

Retreat From Earth ★★★⯪☆ Martians planning to invade the Earth receive a horrible surprise when they discover that Earth's most intelligent species are not the human's they have infiltrated but an ancient and highly advanced, subterranean species controlling termites. The offended disbelief of the Martian explorer on finding that termites have munched through his electronics is priceless.

How We Went to Mars ❤️ ★★★★★ A dryly humorous satirical story following the bumbling members of the not-particularly competent, amateur rocket scientists club "Snoring-in-the-Hay Rocket Society", in which they launch a homemade, "bakelite" spaceship on April 1st, that exceeds expectations, accidentally landing on Mars... and where they are met with advanced, bearded, white-robed, multilingual Martians. Funny.

🟢Travel by Wire! ❤️ ★★★★★ - Published in 1937, this is Clarke's first ever published short story. It's actually quite amusing. The story is a transcript focusing on the often chaotic and dangerous developmental, technical and commercial obstacles of a new form of instantaneous transport (i.e. teleportation), the "radio-transporter" machine. There are some odd side effects and shenanigans by scientists.

03/02/2026 20:30 - molto bello, tempo fa leggevo i racconti che più mi ispiravano, ma ora vado avanti alla mano perché ogni racconto è veramente una chicca.