Title: The Hammer of God

Title: The Hammer of God Title Record # 41135
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Date: 1992-09-28
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: First published in a special issue of Time (published September 28, 1992) on "Beyond the Year 2000"; it was only the second piece of fiction to be published in that magazine (according to Clarke's 'Sources and Acknowledgements' for the 1993 novel).

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Year	Title
2022	The Hammer of God [2]

Year	Language	Title
1993^ⓘTranslated by an unknown hand	Romanian	Ciocanul Domnului
2013^ⓘTranslated by Denise Terrel revised by Tom Clegg	French	Le marteau de dieu
2019^ⓘItalian translation of "The Hammer of God" Translated by Artori Veri	Italian	Il Martello di Die

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
11	1993 Locus	Best Short Story

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Quasar, 6-7/1993	1993-00-00	ed. Mihai Bădescu^?Mihai Badescu	PROCONSF		Lei 200^?Lei: Romanian leu. ISO codes: ROK in 1947-1952, ROL in 1952-2005, RON since 2005	48	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	mag	Frank Devino
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection	1993-06-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Press	0-312-09423-X	$27.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xxxvi+ 588	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Bob Eggleton
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection	1993-06-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Press	0-312-09424-8	$16.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xxxvi+ 588	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Bob Eggleton
Best New SF 7	1993-09-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	Robinson	1-85487-234-6	£10.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	xxxvi+ 588	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Les Edwards
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection	1993-09-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	St. Martin's Press / SFBC	01576	$14.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xxxvi+ 588	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Bob Eggleton
Decades of Science Fiction	1997-04-00	ed. Applewhite Minyard	NTC Publishing Group	0-8442-5994-2	$26.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	xvi+ 557	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	François Robert
Decades of Science Fiction	1997-04-00	ed. Applewhite Minyard	NTC Publishing Group	0-8442-5995-0		xvi+ 557+ vi+ 72	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	François Robert
The Collected Stories	2000-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07065-X	£20.00^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	x+ 966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Blacksheep
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2001-02-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Tor	0-312-87821-4	$29.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	x+ 966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Drive Communications
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2001-02-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Tor / SFBC	35027	$14.98^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	x+ 966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Drive Communications
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2001-10-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz / Orion	1-85798-323-8	£9.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	x+ 966	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Blacksheep
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2002-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Orb	0-312-87860-5	$17.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	x+ 966	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Drive Communications
The Hard SF Renaissance	2002-11-00	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Tor	0-312-87635-1	$39.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	960	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Gregory Manchess
The Hard SF Renaissance	2002-12-00	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Tor / SFBC	54747	$14.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	960	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Gregory Manchess
The Hard SF Renaissance	2003-10-00	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Orb	0-312-87636-X	$21.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	960	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Gregory Manchess
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2008-11-03	Arthur C. Clarke	Paw Prints	978-1-4395-6906-1	$28.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Drive Communications
The Hard SF Renaissance	2011-04-00	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Orb		$11.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	anth	Gregory Manchess
The Collected Stories: Volume Five	2011-04-26	Arthur C. Clarke	Clipper / W. F. Howes				digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2011-06-02	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz / Orion	978-0-575-09877-0	£7.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	blacksheep Design
Lightspeed, December 2011	2011-12-00	ed. John Joseph Adams	Prime Books		$2.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	mag	Angel Alonso Garcia
Odyssées: l'intégrale des nouvelles	2013-11-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Bragelonne	978-2-35294-684-7	€28.00^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	1116	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2016-00-00	Arthur C. Clarke	RosettaBooks	978-0-7953-4973-7			ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	coll	Corinna Lupp
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2016-08-16	Arthur C. Clarke	Audible Studios		$39.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll
Terra e Spazio - Volume 4	2019-09-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Mondadori (Urania Collezione #200)		€6.90^?€: Euro. ISO code: EUR	384	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Franco Brambilla
Arthur C. Clarke Audiobook Collection	2022-04-07	Arthur C. Clarke	MotionAudiobooks		$44.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		audio MP3 DVD^?DVD with mp3-encoded audio tracks	omni
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	date unknown	Arthur C. Clarke	Tor	0-312-87821-4	$29.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	x+ 966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Drive Communications
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	date unknown	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz / Orion	1-85798-323-8	£14.99^?£: UK pound. ISO code: GBP	x+ 966	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Blacksheep
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	date unknown	Arthur C. Clarke	Orb	0-312-87860-5	$19.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	x+ 966	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Drive Communications
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	date unknown	Arthur C. Clarke	Audible Studios		$39.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD		digital audio download^?Digital recording in any format that is downloaded directly from the Internet. This category includes podcasts.	coll
The Hard SF Renaissance	date unknown	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Orb	978-0-312-87636-4	$25.99^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	960	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Gregory Manchess
The Hard SF Renaissance	date unknown	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Orb	0-312-87636-X	$21.95^?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD	960	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Gregory Manchess

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