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Notability and sources

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Sources that I cannot access but that seem to contain some coverage of this, and could help to establish notabilty.

  • John Hollow (1987). Against the Night, the Stars: The Science Fiction of Arthur C. Clarke. Ohio University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-8214-0862-9. "In “Transience” (1949), for example, a story of his which is really more meditation than story, Earth is presented as it is in The Time Machine's far - distant future: as a deserted beach"
  • John J. Pierce (1989). When World Views Collide: A Study in Imagination and Evolution. Greenwood Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-313-25457-4. "Clarke treats it poetically in “ ' Transience ” ( 1949 ) , a series of vignettes about man and the sea — the sea as seen"
  • Paul Kincaid (2008). What it is We Do when We Read Science Fiction. Beccon Publications. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-870824-54-5. "evolution which will eventually replace humanity as the dominant race on Earth , as we see in ' Transience ' ( 1949 ) "
  • the work is mentioned in an academic article here: [1] "Clarke's elegiac early stories “Nightfall” (1941), “History Lesson” (1949), and “Transience” (1949), all concern the end of the Earth. " --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:12, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • I couldn't get much more of a look at most of them either, but I did manage to get into the last. The main mention of the story is the sentence:
In “Transience,” the end of the world comes as a shadow from outer space, “something black and monstrous [that] eclipse[s] the stars”
I think I could use in the themes section, as I did with the others for the most part, but not much more than that. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 09:04, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think that this has OK notability, but not stellar. (No pun intended.) I mildly wish that we could have pages similar to a list of characters when it comes to short stories since most will have mild coverage like this, however such a page could become easily unwieldy when it comes to sections and subsections, as I can see people trying to make each section its own full article. Still, something to debate for the future. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (。◕‿◕。) 09:07, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]