Arthur C. Clarke

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Title: The Trigger: Description:
Science Fiction

Title: 3001: The Final Odyssey: Description:
Now approaching the millennium, the light of Lucifer is extinguished and for the second time in four million years, the Monolith awakes. The limitless power of an alien technology has decided what part humanity must play in the evolution of the galaxy.

Title: Rama Ii: Description:
Humanity has a second date with destiny. Rama II is set in 2200, four years after a second appproaching spacecraft has been detected. But this time, earth is ready...

Title: 3001 The Final Odyssey: Description:
The sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey". For the second time in four million years, the Monolith awakes. The limitless power of an alien technology has decided what part humanity must play in the evolution of the galaxy, whether it wants to or not.

Title: 2061: Odyssey Three: Description:
Arthur C.Clarke's space saga contines in 2061, when an Earth vessel landing on Halley's Comet marks the beginning of another confrontation between Heywood Floyd and David Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL and the unseen alien power that controls the destiny of Earth

Title: Childhood's End (pan Science Fiction): Description:
Synopsis An all-time Science Fiction classic with a new Millennial Introduction and revised 1990 first chapter as an appendix. Silent spacecraft take the light from the world. superintelligent aliens rule with wisdom not force. A new era of invention and prosperity brings hope and peace. The twilight of the human race has begun.

Title: 3001: The Final Odyssey: Description:
Frank Poole was last seen alive in the vicinity of the United States Spaceship Discovery en route to Jupiter's moons. The year was A.D. 2001 and the Series 9000 HAL computer on board Discovery had malfunctioned. Frank was Hal's first victim. Grappling frantically with the broken air hose of his spacesuit, Frank died in the blackness and vacuum of space. In A.D. 3001 his perfectly preserved body is retrieved by Captain Dimitri Chandler of the spacetug Goliath; medical and electro-optical technologies restore his life and then enhance it with a Braincap. Thus Frank becomes a telepathic, machine-assisted inhabitant of the first years of the fourth millennium, with a lot to learn. The alien Monoliths have been silent since the eruption of Jupiter into a sun in A.D. 2010. Their last message was a warning: ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE. But Frank Poole is an exception to the aliens' interdict. Or so he hopes. Frank has unfinished business on Europa. And perhaps Dave Bowman, his long-lost colleague from the Discovery is there, a thousand years older but not dead. And alien.

Title: 2010: Odyssey Two: Description:
Out among the moons of Jupiter, the empty spacecraft Discovery and the enigmatic alien monolith still float in the silent depths of space, mute witnesses of the mysterious disappearance of astronaut David Bowman through the 'Star Gate' nine years before. To them comes the Leonov, bearing a joint Soviet-American scientific team on a mission of investigation and recovery. A mission whose outcome will be beyond the wildest imaginings of any of the mere humans involved...

Title: Richter 10: Description:
Lewis Crane was a child whena devastating Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 ripped his life apart, leaving him the sole survivor of his family.

Title: Sunstorm (gollancz): Description:
The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down and it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite and embark on the most ambitious engineering project ever: the construction, at the La Grange point between the sun and the earth, of a deflecting mirror the diameter of our home planet. The price of failure? Extinction. One scientist, an expert on the sun, predicted the flare. One person who knew nothing about the sun nevertheless knew the exact date that life on earth would come to an end. She had witnessed the bizarre time dislocations brought by the 'eyes'. She knows who is responsible. This is hard SF in the grand tradition of the genre About the Author Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King¿s college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers¿ Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, ¿The Sentinel¿. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife.

Title: Rama Ii: Description:
In this sequel to "Rendezvous with Rama", another Raman spacecraft approaches Earth, in the year 2200. An expedition is mounted to explore the alien craft, determined to unveil some of the mysteries which remained when Rama left the solar system 70 years previously. About the Author SALES POINTS* No one does it better than Arthur C. Clarke" Times Literary Supplement * Arthur C. Clarke is one of the truly prophetic figures of the space age .. . the colossus of science fiction" New Yorker * "Packed with suspense and mystery" Sunday Times --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Title: Fall Of Moondust: Description:
A science fiction novel, last published in 1995, in which time is running out for the passengers and crew of a tourist cruiser that is trapped in a sea of choking lunar dust, and their rescuers are stretched to the limit by the unpredictable conditions of the alien environment. By the author of THE DEEP RANGE.

Title: Deep Range (pan Science Fiction): Description:
It has taken a long time, but humankind has won its battle against the sea. Now, professionals harvest plankton with which to feed the world, but like space, the sea has not yielded all its secrets, and men such as Franklin, the protagonist of this tale, will never rest until all its fathomless mysteries have been challenged.

Title: Fountains Of Paradise: Description:
A science fiction novel first published in 1979.

Title: The Garden Of Rama: Description:
An instalment in the saga which began with the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "Rendezvous with Rama" and "Rama II". Now "Rama II" is on its way out of the solar system. Aboard it are two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown. About the Author Arthur C. Clarke is the world's best known and bestselling author of science fiction, winner of many awards and accolades for his writing.

Title: Rendezvous With Rama: Description:
In the year 2130, a huge alien artifact approaches the Earth from outer space. Commander Norton and his crew take their ship to meet it, and, once inside, discover the wonders that go to make up Rama. About the Author SALES POINTS* The only novel to have scooped all the major SF awards, including the Hugo, the Nebula and the British SF Award. * "Packed with suspense and mystery" Sunday Times * "Quite masterly" The Times * "Arthur C. Clarke is one of the truly prophetic figures of the space age"New Yorker --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: 2001 A Space Odyssey: Description:
based on the screenplay by Kubrick and Clarke

Title: 2001 A Space Odyssey: Description:
based on the screenplay by Kubrick and Clarke

Title: The Flying Sorcerers: Description:
A collection of comic fantasy tales by a range of authors which includes Terry Pratchett, Roald Dahl, Arthur C. Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Angela Carter, C.S. Lewis, P.G. Wodehouse and Michael Moorcock. About the Author Peter Haining lives with his wife in Suffolk and has had a long and distinguished career as a writer and compiler.

Title: The Wind From The Sun: Description:
A volume containing all of the 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. They depict a future in which technology is beginning to dictate man's life style - even to demand life for themselves.

Title: Lost Worlds Of 2001: Description:
Includes chapters on the making of the film '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Title: The View From Serendip: Description:
This book offers glimpses of Clark the adventurer that will delight those readers who know him only as a superb popularizer of space science or as one of the best of modern science fiction writers.

Title: The Trigger: Description:
Without war, we'd hardly have any history. Without murder, we'd hardly have any fiction. Then along came the Trigger ...the only true promise of peace that technology has ever devised. From the legendary Arthur C. Clarke, in collaboration with Michael Kube-McDowell of Star Wars fame, comes a chilling day-after-tomorrow thriller of huge vision and startling menace. Jeffrey Horton of Terabyte Laboratories is the brilliant, driven and idealistic scientist responsible for the discovery of the Trigger. It was an accidental discovery: Horton was hoping to build the analogue of a laser for gravity. Instead, his experiment, when fired up for the first time, 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. Karl Brohier, Horton's boss and a Nobel Prive winner, has to decide what to do with the Trigger. Patriotism dictates he and Horton hand over the science to the Pentagon. Idealism demands the invention be given to the whole world, regardless of politics.But what haunts Brohier is the fear that with one wrong word to the wrong person, a convoy of black vans filled with Special Operations troops will swoop down on the Terabyte campus and cart away everything, including himself and Horton. So Brohier takes news of the Trigger direct to the White House. President Mark Breland, former star pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, has a record of integrity and liberalism. He would rather be wrong in a hurry than agonize his way to a state of ambivalence, and he promises Horton and Brohier that the Trigger will be made available to the world. The Pentagon regards Breland's promise as wrong to the point of being treasonous. It involves disarming the military! In a world where violence has reached epidemic proportions, no one can be trusted. Too many people have a stake in the business of violence to give peace a chance.

Title: Childhood's End: Description:
'Wonderfully imaginative novel of the transformation of Man ... hailed as a landmark by afcionadoes of the genre' - New York Times.

Title: 2001: A Space Odyssey: Description:
The classic sci-fi novel.

Title: Profiles Of The Future: An Inquiry Into The Limits Of The Possible: Description:
Arthur C. Clarke is one of the world`s most renowned writers of science and science fiction, 'one of the truly prophetic figures of the space age' (New Yorker).

Title: The Light Of Other Days: Description:
'Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?' With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light. Realtime television coverage is here: earthquakes and wars, murders and disasters can be watched, exactly as they occur, anywhere on the planet. Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space. Humanity encounters itself in the light of other days. We witness the life of Jesus, go to the premiere of Hamlet, solve the enigmas that have baffled generations. Blood spilled centuries ago flows vividly once more - and no personal treachery or shame can be concealed. But when the world and everything in it becomes as transparent as glass and there are no more secrets, people find new ways to gain vengeance and commit crime, and Hiram Patterson finds new ways to keep his Machiavellian schemes secret.