Status Updates From Tales Of Ten Worlds

"To be killed by a death ray would be a fate much more fitting for a de Vere Courtenay-and in the circumstances I don't see how anyone can deny that it was a death ray that Edgar had used. It was a ray, and it killed someone.
What more do you want?" (99) who could ask for anything more

"That lickerish voice continued behind my back." (17) beg pardon

"Long ago I learned not to argue with Marxists and Flat-Earthers," (14) published 1962

Damn nothing like accidentally killing a planet through scientific discovery 😭

Clarke got so much passion and imagination for space travel and man hasn’t even landed on the moon?!

Why should men travel, he asked himself bitterly, across the gulf of stars at such expense and risk-merely to land on a spinning slag heap? For the same reason he knew, that they had once struggled to reach Everest and the Poles and the far places of Earth- for the excitement of the body that was adventure, and the more enduring excitement of the mind that was discovery.
-peak writing right here

He had been so certain of success when the pod had started its glide across the barren face of Icarus. And now this, all through a moment of physical weakness! But space made no allowance for human frailties or emotions, and a man who did not accept that fact had no right to be here.

Genuinely can’t tell if the first chapter was a mini autobiography or made up lol