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Richter 10 (Mass Market Paperback)
by Arthur C. Clarke (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 446 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New Ed edition (20 Jun 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575601108
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575601109
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.2 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  (6 customer reviews)
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Synopsis
Thirty years after the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake killed his family, Lewis Crane has become the world's top seismologist, determined to protect people from his parent's fate. But in a world controlled by Chinese corporations and split by racist and religious strife, many don't want him to succeed.

About the Author
Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King's college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars RICHTER 10, RATING 3, 27 Feb 2005
By DAVID BRYSON (Glossop Derbyshire England) - See all my reviews
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When this book eventually gets into its stride it's a lot better than you might think to begin with. Sir Arthur took to outsourcing his narratives with the later volumes of the Rama series, and at first I thought this was going to be as bad as those were. I reread it in the aftershock of the tsunami disaster of 12/26/04, something I wouldn't otherwise have done.

Clarke's true genius in fiction is as a short-story writer, and it seems to me that the great Childhood's End was the only real full-length novel he had in him. Even it hardly runs to 200 pages. The City and the Stars is slightly longer, but it is a