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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.
- United Kingdom
- 1953
‘The Nine Billion Names of God’: plot summary. The story begins with the Dalai Lama making an unusual request of Dr Wagner, a man who works in computing. The lama wishes to hire an Automatic Sequence Computer from Wagner’s company and have it transported to the Tibetan mountains so that it can carry out an unusual function.
If so, there was no trace of annoyance in the reply. “Call it ritual, if you like, but it’s a fundamental part of our belief. All the many names of the Supreme Being—God, Jehovah, Allah, and so on—they are only man-made labels. There is a philosophical problem of some difficulty here, which I do not propose to discuss, but somewhere ...
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I nove miliardi di nomi di Dio ( The Nine Billion Names of God) è un racconto di fantascienza di Arthur C. Clarke pubblicato nel 1953, vincitore del premio Hugo per il miglior racconto breve. Il racconto dà il titolo a un'antologia di Clarke pubblicata a New York dalla Harcourt, Brace & World nel 1967. [1]
- Operazione Shangri-La
- 1953
- The Nine Billion Names of God
- Arthur C. Clarke
4.06. 8,030 ratings317 reviews. ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S FAVORITE STORIES. 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...
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9 giu 2010 · Introduction.--The nine billion names of God.--I remember Babylon.--Trouble with time.--Rescue party.--The curse.--Summertime on Icarus.--Dog star.--Hide and seek.--Out of the sun.--The wall of darkness.--No morning after.--The possessed.--Death and the senator.--Who's there.--Before Eden.--Superiority.--A walk in the dark.--The call ...
18 apr 2020 · Short fiction: Expedition to Earth, 1953; Reach for Tomorrow, 1956; Tales from the White Hart, 1957; The Other Side of the Sky, 1958; Tales of Ten Worlds, 1962; The Nine Billion Names of God, 1967; Of Time and Stars: The Worlds of Arthur C. Clarke, 1972; The Wind from the Sun, 1972; The Best of Arthur C. Clarke, 1937-1971, 1973; The ...
