Here is Arthur C. Clarke at his most impish and light-hearted:  This volume includes: Silence Please; Big Game Hunt; Patents Pending; Armaments Race; Critical Mass; The Ultimate Melody; The Pacifist; The Next Tenants; Moving Spirit; The Man Who Ploughed the Sea; The Reluctant Orchid; Cold War; What Goes Up; Sleeping Beauty; The Defestration of Ermintrude Inch. Cover art by David O’Conner.