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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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1993^ⓘTranslated by an unknown hand	Romanian	Ciocanul Domnului
2013^ⓘTranslated by Denise Terrel revised by <a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=Tom%20Clegg&type=Name&mode=exact">Tom Clegg</a>	French	Le marteau de dieu

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	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	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	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
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	xxxvi+ 588	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Bob Eggleton
Best New SF 7	1993-09-00	ed. Gardner Dozois	Robinson	1-85487-234-6	£10.99^?£: UK pound	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
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
Decades of Science Fiction	1997-04-00	ed. Applewhite Minyard	NTC Publishing Group	0-8442-5994-2	$26.95^?$: US dollar	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
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2000-01-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Gollancz / Orion	0-575-07065-X	£20.00^?£: UK pound	x+ 966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	blacksheep Design
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke	2001-02-00	Arthur C. Clarke	Tor	0-312-87821-4	$29.95^?$: US dollar	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	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	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	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	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	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	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	966	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll
Lightspeed, December 2011	2011-12-00	ed. John Joseph Adams	Prime Books		$2.99^?$: US dollar		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	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	date unknown	Arthur C. Clarke	Tor	0-312-87821-4	$29.95^?$: US dollar	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	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	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	date unknown	ed. Kathryn Cramer, David G. Hartwell	Orb	978-0-312-87636-4	$25.99^?$: US dollar	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	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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