[Ads-l] Quotes from Famous Short Stories

[Mark Mandel]

Without yet checking sources, my memory confirms the Clarke quote as the
last line in the story, and the Brown quote as the first *and penultimate*
lines of that story. I've been avidly reading sf at least since the late
fifties, and those two stories are classics I must have read a dozen times
or more.

Mark

On Jan 17, 2018 5:24 PM, "ADSGarson O'Toole" <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:


Year: 1953
Periodical: Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1
Short Story: The Nine Billion Names of God
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Note: I haven't verified this with hardcopy. This data is from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God

[Begin excerpt]
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
[End excerpt]


Date: December 1948
Short Story: Knock
Author: Fredric Brown
Periodical: Thrilling Wonder Stories
Note: I haven't verified this with hardcopy. This data is from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_(short_story)

[Begin excerpt]
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...
[End excerpt]

Garson

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