"Silence Please" is the title of two science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

[1] The “White Hart” story describes the efforts of a brilliant college student to design a machine that would produce a field of absolute silence.

The story touches (albeit in a humorous way) on the popular science fiction theme of an inventor coming to grief at the hands of their invention that is best known from Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.

The fictional opera is similar, though “Edward England” is the real name of a dissonant composer in the distant future, not a euphemism for (presumably) Benjamin Britten.

The story was one of two works by Clarke translated by Hungarian writer and politician Árpád Göncz: the other was 2001: A Space Odyssey.