Tales from the White Hart

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Tales from the White Hart is a humorous science fiction short story collection by Arthur C. Clarke, framed as tall tales told in a fictional London pub.

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instanceOf humorous science fiction work
science fiction book
short story collection
author Arthur C. Clarke
centralStoryteller Harry Purvis
containsStory Armaments Race
Big Game Hunt
Cold War
Critical Mass
Moving Spirit
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Silence, Please
Sleeping Beauty
The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch
The Inhabited Planet
The Last Trump
The Lion of Comarre
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
surface form: The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Ploughed the Sea
The Next Tenants
The Other Side of the Sky
The Pacifist
The Reluctant Orchid
The Ultimate Melody
What Goes Up
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresFictionalLocation The White Hart pub
genre humor
science fiction
hasCoverArtBy Frank Kelly Freas
hasFictionalCounterpartOf White Horse pub in London
hasFramingDevice tall tales told by regulars in a pub
hasHumorStyle dry British humor
hasTheme comic exaggeration
science and technology mishaps
tall tales
inspiredBy London pub culture
language English
literaryForm short stories
literaryPeriod 20th-century science fiction
mediaType print
narrativeFrame stories told in a London pub
notableCharacter Harry Purvis
originalPublicationYear 1957
partOfAuthorBibliography works of Arthur C. Clarke
publisher Ballantine Books
Victor Gollancz Ltd
setting fictional pub The White Hart
targetAudience adult readers

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