Arthur C. Clarke
Born:  1917 Died: March 18, 2008

Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most celebrated science fiction authors of our time. He is the author of more than sixty books with more than 50 million copies in print, winner of all the field's highest honors. He was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1986. His numerous awards include the 1962 Kalinga prize for science writing, which is administred by UNESCO; the 1969 AAAS-Westinghouse science-writing prize; the Bradford Washbur Award; and the Hugo (2 times), Nebula and John W. Campbell Awards. His bestsellers include Childhood's End;2001:A Space Odyssey ;2010: Odyssey Two; 2061: Odyssey Three and most recently, 3001: The Final Odyssey;Rama II;The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed (with Gentry Lee). His most recent work is The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter).

Series

2001


2001:  A Space Odessey
Ron Walotsky

2010 Odessey II
Michael Whelan

2061 Odessey III
Michael Whelan

3001 The Final Odyssey
David Stevenson

2001:  A Space Odyessy
2010: Odyssey Two
2061:  Odyssey Three
3001:  A Final Odyssey

Rama Universe
(with Gentry Lee)


Rendezvous with Rama
Jim Burns

Rama II
Jim Burns

Garden of Rama

Rama Revealed
Stephen Youll

Rama:  Rendezvous With Rama
Rama II
The Garden of Rama
Rama Revealed

Tales from the White Hart

Tales From The White Hart
(1957)

Critical Mass (1949)
Silence, Please (1950)
Armaments Race (1954)
Patent Pending (1954)
The Pacifist (1956)
Big Game Hunt (1956)
The Reluctant Orchid ((1956)
Tales From The White Hart (1957)
The Next Tennants (1957)
The Ultimate Melody (1957)
Time Odyssey

Time's Eye
David Stephenson

Sunstorm
David Stephenson

First Born
David Stevenson

Time's Eye, with Stephen Baxter (2003)
For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind— until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants.Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still?The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037—three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan—have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge . . . and the power that lies within.Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting. . . .
Sunstorm, with Stephen Baxter (2005)
Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth’s history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance?
Bisesa’s questions receive a chilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in the sun’s core–an anomaly that has no natural cause is evidence of alien intervention over two thousand years before. Now plans set in motion millennia ago by inscrutable watchers light-years away are coming to fruition in a sunstorm designed to scour the Earth of all life in a bombardment of deadly radiation.
Thus commences a furious race against a ticking solar time bomb. But even now, as apocalypse looms, cooperation is not easy for the peoples and nations of the Earth. Religious and political differences threaten to undermine every effort.
And all the while, the Firstborn are watching...
Firstborn, with Stephen Baxter (2007)

Novels


Prelude to Space
Stanislaw Fernandes
The Sands of Mars

Islands In The Sky
Against the Fall of Night
Stanislaw Fernandes

Childhood's End
Richard Powers
Earthlight
Stanislaw Fernandes

The City and Stars
Donato
The Deep Range

A Fall of Moondust
Fred Gambino
Dolphin Island

Imperial Earth
Fountains of Paradise
Chris Moore

Songs of Distant Earth
Michael Whelan
Cradle, with Gentry Lees

The Ghost from the Grand Banks
Beyond the Fall of Night,
with Gregory Benford

Hammer of God
Richter 10,
with Mike McQuay

The Trigger,
with Michael P. Kube-McDowell
The Light of Other Days,
with Stephen Baxter

The Last Theorem
 (forthcoming: Aug 05 2008)
 with Frederik Pohl
Summertime on Icarus
Jim Burns

There had been cities before, but never such a city as Disapar. For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it had held powers that ruled the stars; but then, the legends said, the invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge.
The Deep Range (1957)
Summertime on Icarus (1960)
A Fall of Moondust (1961)
Dolphin Island (1963)
Imperial Earth (1975)
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
Vannemar Morgan's dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all time-a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems...while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgan's Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda. And for 2,000 years, the monks have protected Sri Kanda from all mortal quests for glory. Kings and princes who have sought to conquer the Sacred Mountain have all died. Now Vannemar Morgan may be next....
The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
Five hundred years later after the Earth is consumed in flames, the Magellan must make planetfall to repair its quantum drive. Its million sleepers awake to find themselves visitors to Thalassa, where a civilization has, in fact, survived. There is a clash of cultures unlike any before.
Cradle (1988)with Gentry Lee
The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990)
The story deals with two groups, both of whom are attempting to raise one of the halves of the wreck of the Titanic from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean in time for the sinking's centennial in 2012.
Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) with Gregory Benford
The Hammer of God (1993)
Richter 10 (1996)with Mike McQuay
The Trigger (1999) with Michael P. Kube-McDowell
Jeffrey Horton of Terabyte Laboratories is the brilliant, driven and idealistic scientist responsible for the discovery of the Trigger. It was an accidental discovery. When Horton fired up his prototype analogue of a laser it triggered all nearby explosive material. In that moment, an end to the power of the gun became feasible. In future, a firearm - or a bomb - could be made powerless to harm the innocent. The Trigger might even mean an end to war.
Patriotism dictates that Terabyte hands over the science to the Pentagon. Idealism demands the invention be given to the whole world, regardless of politics.
But in a world where violence has reached epidemic proportions, too many people have a stake in the business of violence to give peace a chance.
The Light of Other Days (2000) with Stephen Baxter
The Light of Other Days tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy - forever. Then, as society reels, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. Nothing can prepare us for what this means. It is a fundamental change in the terms of the human condition.
The City and the Stars/the Sands of Mars (2001)
The Last Theorem (2008) with Frederik Pohl
Based on the recent sensational proof of Fermat's Theorem 350 years later by a young British mathematician, Andrew Wiles, THE LAST THEOREM charts the story of Ranjit Subramanian, a man fascinated by Fermat's Last Theorem - so simple that anyone can understand it, yet not proved for more than three centuries. Ranjit learns about the Indian mathematical genius Ramanujan (1887-1920) and discovers a three-page proof of the Last Theorem: this might even be Fermat's own proof. The discovery of the Theorem wins Ranjit the Fields Medal - and the attention of the NSA cryptography branch. However, Ranjit soon finds himself drawn by physics rather than cryptography, as there have been some spectacular advances in fusion technology. And these in turn lead to a plasma drive that can open up the Solar System ...