The Nine Billion Names of God (collection)

1967 collection of short stories by Arthur C. Clarke

The Nine Billion Names of God

Cover of the first edition

Author| Arthur C. Clarke
Language| English
Genre| Science fiction
Publisher| Harcourt

Publication date

| 1967
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (hardcover)
Pages| 288 pp

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.

## Contents

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This collection includes:

* "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 of the Stars"
* "The Reluctant Orchid"
* "Encounter at Dawn"
* "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..."
* "Patent Pending"
* "The Sentinel"
* "Transience"
* "The Star"

## Sources

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* Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 102\. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

## External links

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* The Nine Billion Names of God title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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* Bibliography

Novels|

* Prelude to Space
* The Sands of Mars
* Islands in the Sky
* Against the Fall of Night
* Childhood's End
* Earthlight
* The City and the Stars
* The Deep Range
* A Fall of Moondust
* Dolphin Island
* Glide Path
* Imperial Earth
* The Fountains of Paradise
* The Songs of Distant Earth
* Cradle (with Gentry Lee)
* The Ghost from the Grand Banks
* The Hammer of God
* Richter 10 (with Mike McQuay)
* The Trigger (with Michael Kube-McDowell)
* The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter)
* The Last Theorem (with Frederik Pohl)

Novel series|

| Space Odyssey|

* 2001: A Space Odyssey
* 2010: Odyssey Two
* 2061: Odyssey Three
* 3001: The Final Odyssey

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Rama series|

* Rendezvous with Rama
* Rama II (with Gentry Lee)
* The Garden of Rama (with Gentry Lee)
* Rama Revealed (with Gentry Lee)

A Time Odyssey|

* Time's Eye (with Stephen Baxter)
* Sunstorm (with Stephen Baxter)
* Firstborn (with Stephen Baxter)

Short story
collections|

* Expedition to Earth
* Reach for Tomorrow
* Tales from the White Hart
* The Other Side of the Sky
* Tales of Ten Worlds
* The Nine Billion Names of God
* Of Time and Stars
* The Wind from the Sun
* The Best of Arthur C. Clarke
* The Sentinel
* Tales from Planet Earth
* More Than One Universe
* The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

Non-fiction|

* Interplanetary Flight: An Introduction to Astronautics
* The Lost Worlds of 2001
* The View from Serendip
* The Odyssey File: The Making of 2010
* How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village
* An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural

Adaptations|

* 2001: A Space Odyssey (comics)
* 2010: The Year We Make Contact (film)
* The Nine Billion Names of God (short film)
* Rendezvous with Rama (video game)
* "The Star" (TV episode)
* The Songs of Distant Earth (album)
* Rama (video game)
* Childhood's End (TV miniseries)

Related|

* Arthur C. Clarke in media
* Sir Arthur Clarke Award
* Arthur C. Clarke Award
* Geostationary orbit
* Clarke's three laws
* Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
* Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers
* Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe
* Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
* God, the Universe and Everything Else
* Great Basses wreck
* 4923 Clarke
* Serendipaceratops
* GRB 080319B

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