Expedition to Earth

This collection, originally published in 1953, includes:

• "Second Dawn"
• "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth"
• "Breaking Strain"
• "History Lesson" (as "Expedition to Earth" in the British Edition, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954)
• "Superiority"
• "Exile of the Eons" (as "Nemesis" in the British Edition, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954)
• "Hide-and-Seek"
• "Expedition to Earth" (as "Encounter in the Dawn" in the British Edition, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954)
• "Loophole"
• "Inheritance"
• "The Sentinel"

Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas selected the collection as one of the best sf books of 1953, praising the stories' "humor, technical ideas, science-fictional thinking and all-around excellence."[2] Groff Conklin said that "The stories are continuously fascinating" and "exhibiting their author's versatility".[3] P. Schuyler Miller praised it as "an excellent collection . . . span[ning] the whole range of [Clarke's] talents.[4] Writing in the Hartford Courant, reviewer R. W. Wallace declared that the stories "show [Clarke] as a more skilled literary artist" than even his novel Childhood's End had.[5]

• Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 101. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

• Expedition to Earth title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database