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A collection of Clarke's slightly older fiction from the period just after WWII through to 1953, when this volume was published. I have a nostalgic interest in some of these stories--particularly Exile of the Eons & Hide and Seek--having first read them as a teenager more than 40 years ago. Overall, this is a solid collection and displays Clarke's science-based approach to his fiction. In some areas the science is a little dodgy by modern standards but this simply reflects things we have learned or come to better understand in the interim. Some examples include allusions to the moon's "seas" as being the dried up remnants of real seas (whose water later dried up; this is in the story, "The Sentinel", which he would later use as the basis for 2001, A Space Odyssey) and the prediction that the age of rockets (which had barely begun at the time he was writing) would soon give way to atomic-powered craft. It's a pity Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ doesn't allow fractional stars as, to me, this is a solid 3.5--not quite as good as The Other Side of the Sky, a slightly later collection that I read recently.