- Source: Neutron Tide
"Neutron Tide" is a short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1970 in Galaxy Science Fiction. It is among his shortest pieces of writing, consisting solely of a 2-page, detailed description of a futuristic scenario in order to use a pun as a punch-line, a play on the title of "The Star-Spangled Banner", the United States' national anthem. The story was reprinted later in the 1978 Starlord summer special.
Plot summary
Clarke describes a space battleship flying too close to the gravitational field of a neutron star, and it subsequently being torn to bits by the high tidal forces. A military commander revealing this in a meeting says the only identifiable piece of debris was from an engineer's toolkit, a star-mangled spanner.
See also
Neutron stars in fiction
Feghoot – A short story designed to end with a pun
References
External links
Neutron Tide title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- Albert Einstein
- Neutron Tide
- Neutron stars in fiction
- The Wind from the Sun
- Feghoot
- The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur C. Clarke bibliography
- Love number
- Neutron Star (short story)
- Tidal force
- More Than One Universe
