The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke @ Time Traveler Show

I just finished listening to The Time Traveler’s podcast of Arthur C. Clarke’s 1992 (short) story “The Hammer of God” (mp3). I say short story because in 1993 Clarke expanded this story into a full novel of the same name. I guess it shows how lacking my science fiction reading has been that I could have missed a story like this.

Although I disagree with some of the story line, like the future fusion of Muslims and Christians into a single fundamentalist cult, the story of heroism still outshines these minor story points.

The story is from The Collected Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke read by Scott Brick with Gabrielle de Cuir and is podcast with permission of the publisher, AudioLiterature. The actual story starts 26 minutes into the podcast, but is preceeded by some interesting talks by the reader, Scott Brick, and the producer, Stefan Rudnicki. The podcast finishes with a speech Clarke gave during the 1965 Hugo ceremonies entitled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love Stanley Kubrick.” His tale of working with Kubrick on the film that wouldn’t be released till 1968, 2001: A Space Odyssey and just minutes before Kubrick would be awarded the best dramatic presentation Hugo for the movie Dr. Strangelove (which I saw for the first time recently).

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