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A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of ...Show more
Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one child, Alvin - only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar - finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city ...Show more
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Science Fiction
Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. Manned by the Overlords, in fifty years, they eliminate ignorance, disease, and poverty. Then this golden age ends - and then the age of Mankind begins....
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Fiction | Series: Pan 70th Anniversary Ser.
The inspiration for the Syfy miniseries. Childhood's End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many other groundbreaking works. Since its publication in 1953, this prescient novel about first contact gone wrong has come to be regarded not only a ...Show more
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Science Fiction
The inspiration for the Syfy miniseries. Childhood's End is one of the defining legacies of Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and many other groundbreaking works. Since its publication in 1953, this prescient novel about first contact gone wrong has come to be regarded not only a ...Show more
Childhood's End (FS) by CLARKE Arthur C
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: S.F. Masterworks
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world and to offer an end to poverty and crime. When they finally showed themselves it was a shock, but one that ...Show more
Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Fiction | Series: Gollancz S.F.
The definitive collection of short stories from the century's greatest science fiction writer All of Arthur C. Clarke's short stories collected in one volume, beginning with TRAVEL BY WIRE - Clarke's first ever published short story. A volume which showcases his range and variety, each story a classic e ...Show more
Earthlight by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Golden Age Masterworks Ser.
The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Outer space inhabitants have formed a new political entity, the Federation, and between the Federation and Earth a growing rivalry has developed. EARTHLIGHT is the story of ...Show more
Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Time Odyssey S.
With this epic tale of altered histories and different earths, a universe where Alexander's empire prompted a different past, a world where strange alien 'eyes' gaze upon a fractured reality, a time when man is looking to colonise the red planet Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter scale new heights of a ...Show more
Firstborn by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Time Odyssey S.
Two of the biggest names in SF together again, with the third of the acclaimed Time's Odyssey sequence