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and tells of the development of a civilization and a disaster which destroys them when they are on the verge of abandoning their "clumsy chemically fuelled bodies and thus achieve multiple connectivity."
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on 4 November 1999 and was the first piece of science fiction
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ever published. It is also the last story included in
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Short story
Arthur C. Clarke
Science fiction
Nature
science fiction
short story
Arthur C. Clarke
Nature
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
Dr. Pons
Dr. Fleischmann
monologue
ISBN
0-312-87821-4
Improving the Neighbourhood
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
"Improving the neighbourhood"
doi
10.1038/46906
Stub icon
science fiction
short story
stub
expanding it
v
t
e
Categories
1999 short stories
Short stories by Arthur C. Clarke

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