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Sci Fi Focus   >   Encyclopedia   >   Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Charles Arthur Clarke (1917-) is a British-born (he also holds Sri Lankan citizenship) science fiction author.

The film 2001: A Space Odyssey was loosely based on Clarke's short story, The Sentinel. Clarke rewrote the story as a novel while collaborating on a screenplay with Stanley Kubrik.

Clarke is often credited with the geostationary communication satellite, a concept that he first proposed in a 1945 paper. However, John R. Pierce at Bell Labs who has actually involved in the Echo and Telstar satellites arrived at the idea independently in 1954, although Pierce has stated the idea was "in the air" at the time.

Clarke has also presented two popular television programs: Athur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, and Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers.

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The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

By Arthur C. Clarke

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Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive. He is—with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein—one of the writers who define science fiction in our time. Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works. From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre," through classics like "The Star," "Earthlight," "The Nine Billion Names of God," and "The Sentinel" (kernel of the later novel, and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The Hammer of God," this immense volume encapsulates one of the great SF careers of all time.

2001: A Space Odyssey

By Arthur C. Clarke

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Released: 2000-09-01
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2001: A Space Odyssey
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2001: A Space Odyssey is the classic science fiction novel that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves....

2001: A Space Odyssey inspired what is perhaps the greatest science fiction film ever made--brilliantly imagined by the late Stanley Kubrick....

2001 is finally here....

Childhood's End (Del Rey Impact)

By Arthur C. Clarke

Del Rey
Released: 2001-07-03
Paperback (256 pages)

Childhood s End (Del Rey Impact)
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The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.

But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind . . . or the beginning?

AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT (Ibooks Science Fiction Classics)

By Arthur C. Clarke

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Paperback (208 pages)

AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT (Ibooks Science Fiction Classics)
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The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity's last home. Alone among immortals, the only man born in 10 million years desperately wants to find what lies beyond the City. His quest will uncover the destiny of a people—and a galaxy. This book also includes the classic short story Jupiter V.

3001: The Final Odyssey

By Arthur C. Clarke

Del Rey
Released: 1998-01-28
Mass Market Paperback (288 pages)

3001: The Final Odyssey
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One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again. . . .

A Main Selection of the Science Fiction Book Club®
Selected by the Literary Guild® and Doubleday Book Club®

The Songs of Distant Earth

By Arthur C. Clarke

Del Rey
Released: 1987-04-12
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Thalassa was a paradise above the earth. Its beauty and vast resources seduce its inhabitants into a feeling of perfection. But then the Magellan arrives, carrying with it one million refugees from the last mad days of earth. Paradise looks indeed lost....

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: The Star, Volume III (Arthur C. Clarke Collection: Short Stories)

By Arthur C. Clarke

RosettaBooks
Released: 2012-11-30
Kindle Edition (258 pages)

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke: The Star, Volume III (Arthur C. Clarke Collection: Short Stories)
 
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In the title story of this outstanding collection, a group of cosmonauts discovers the remains of an advanced civilization in a remote star system—destroyed when their sun went supernova. They find that the civilization was very similar to Earth’s—and that its people knew of their coming doom centuries before it occurred. What they find leads their chief astrophysicist—also a Jesuit priest—into a deep crisis of faith, sparked by a shocking revelation that has implications not just for history—but for religion.

This collection of short stories demonstrates not only Clarke’s technological imagination—but also a deep poetic sensibility that led him to ponder the philosophical and moral implications of technological advances. These stories demonstrate the range of his vision as an author—based on both our scientific potential and the deeper aspects of the human condition.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clarke is widely revered as one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 20th century, esteemed alongside Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, a trio known informally as the “Big Three.” Before his death in 2008, he authored more than 100 novels, novellas, and short story collections and laid the groundwork for science fiction as we know it today. Combining scientific knowledge and visionary literary aptitude, Clarke’s work explored the implications of major scientific discoveries in astonishingly inventive and mystical settings.

Clarke’s short stories and novels have won numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Several of his books, including 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: Odyssey II, have been adapted into films that still stand as classic examples of the genre. Without a doubt, Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most important voices in contemporary science fiction literature.

2010: Odyssey Two

By Arthur C. Clarke

Del Rey
Released: 1997-02-25
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2010: Odyssey Two
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"A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."

*Carl Sagan



Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft *to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong . . . and what became of Commander Dave Bowman.



Without warning, a Chinese expedition targets the same objective, turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race for the precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter.



Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman *the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith *streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own . . .



"Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play."

*Time



"2010 is easily Clarkes' best book in over a decade."

*The San Diego Tribune

The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack

By Arthur C. Clarke, George Zebrowski, Pamela Sargent, Mary A. Turzillo & Samuel R. Delany

Wildside Press
Released: 2013-02-14
Kindle Edition (611 pages)

The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack
 
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"The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack" presents 25 more mind-bending excursions through time and space, with great stories by such authors as Arthur C. Clarke, Nancy Kress, Lawrence Watt-Evans, George Zebrowski, Philip K. Dick, and many more! Included are:


OUT OF ALL THEM BRIGHT STARS, by Nancy Kress

THE HANGING STRANGER, by Philip K. Dick

WALKING JOHN AND BIRD, by Neal Asher

THE SYMPHONIC ABDUCTION, by Hannes Bok

THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD, by Arthur C. Clarke

HILLARY ORBITS VENUS, by Pamela Sargent

MAYBE JUST A LITTLE ONE, by Reginald Bretnor

THE ULTROOM ERROR, by Jerry Sohl

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME, by Lawrence Watt-Evans

THE ASTRONAUT FROM WYOMING, by Adam-Troy Castro & Jerry Oltion

PRIDE, by Mary A. Turzillo

CAT AND MOUSE, by Ralph Williams

THE RECORD, by Forrest J Ackerman and Ray Bradbury

THE NEW REALITY, by Reginald Bretnor

WHAT HATH ME? by Henry Kuttner

BRIDGE OF SILENCE, by George Zebrowski

SUN’S UP, by A.A. Jackson IV and Howard Waldrop

CONSIGNMENT, by Alan E. Nourse

THE SYNDIC, by C.M. Kornbluth

AFTER BONESTELL, by Jay Lake

THE JEWELS OF APTOR, by Samuel R. Delany

THE MISSISSIPPI SAUCER, by Frank Belknap Long

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE, by Murray F. Yaco

CANCER WORLD, by Harry Warner, Jr.

EGOCENTRIC ORBIT, by John Cory


And don't forget to search this ebook store for more entries in the Megapack series, covering everything from science fiction and fantasy to horror, westerns, pulp fiction, adventure, ghost stories, and much, much more!

2061: Odyssey Three

By Arthur C. Clarke

Del Rey
Released: 1997-02-25
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Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.

 
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