Recently I listened to two rather different Arthur C. Clarke stories.

“All the Time in the World”. I originally experienced this as a Twilight Zone episode,  or so I thought,  in which a frustrated bank teller embraces a nuclear war as an occasion to finally get around to his TBR pile, only to be frustrated by breaking his eyeglasses. The premise of THIS story is rather different, and Clarke notes at the beginning that not only does he not remember how his story was adapted, he can’t imagine how it was adapted given the technology at the time.  His confusion stems from the fact that the original premise involves aliens offering human burglars a special tool – the Accelerator, a bracelet that seems to slow down time –  provided they will steal various art works.  The only shared point between stories is….uh, nuclear holocaust, and I’ll leave it at that. The ending has the same bittersweet feeling. On further research I found out that the Twilight Zone episode was adapted from a completely different story, “Time Enough at Last”, which would explain the very shallow Venn-diagram overlap.

“Deep Range”. A…story about near-future humans shepherding flocks of whales using dolphins as sheepdogs to defend them against deep-sea beasts. Can’t really say more than that, to be honest.  It was an enjoyable enough way to spend 20 minutes but I don’t think I’ll remember it in a week.