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* [[Last of His Kind]]: [[Lampshaded]]. "He had always been a good piano player, and now he was the best in the world."
* [[Older Than They Think]]: Clarke joked in his updated prologue that new readers will think that the opening scene with the fleet of alien ships blocking the sun was ripped off from ''[[Independence Day]]'' (despite this being written in ''1953''!). In fact, Clarke himself knew of an even earlier story with the same scene.
{{quote|"...I am also informed that [[Independence Day|its]] opening is identical to that of ''[[
* [[Old Shame]]: He mentions in the Millennial edition that he wrote this when he still had a belief in the paranormal.
* [[Ominous Floating Spaceship]] most likely the [[Trope Maker]], certainly a contender for the [[Ur Example]], were it not for Clarke's own comments that the Trope is older.
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