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* [[Ironic Echo]]: Pretty much all of the "Harry Purvis" tales.
* [[Local Hangout]]: The "White Hart".
* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]: Clarke's works, for the most part, lie firmly on the "hard" side of this sliding scale. Hardly surprising, given that he had been a radar operator in [[World War II]] and that training was in mathematics and physics (he was one of the first to propose communications satellites). In ''[[The Songs of Distant Earth]]'', for example, he had to invoke the rather speculative possibility of zero-point energy just so he'd have a power source for a ''slower''-than-light starship.
** "Jupiter Five" was dedicated to Professor G. C. McVitte as writing the story involved having twenty to thirty pages of orbital calculations drawn up.
* [[No Poverty]]: In "The City and the Stars".
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