Arthur C. Clarke
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. These along with his science fiction writings eventually earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the towering figures of science fiction. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946–1947 and again in 1951–1953. Clarke emigrated from England to Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in 1956, largely to pursue his interest in scuba diving. That year he discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient Koneswaram temple in Trincomalee. Clarke augmented his fame later on in the 1980s, from being the host of several television shows such as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. He lived in Sri Lanka until his death. Clarke was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 "for services to British cultural interests in Sri Lanka". He was knighted in 1998 and was awarded Sri Lanka's highest civil honour, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005. ---From Wikipedia
Books
Time’s Eye
Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. If Clarke has an heir among today's science fiction writers, it is award-winning author Stephen Baxter. In each of his acclaimed novels, Baxter has demonstrated dazzling gifts of imagination and intellect, along with a rare ability to bring the most cerebral science dramatically to life. Now these two champions of humanism and scientific speculation have combined their talents in a novel sure to be one of the most talked-about of the year, a 2001 for the new millennium. TIME'S EYEFor 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. . . .
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume One
The greatest science fiction stories of all time chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America.
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
Collecting the prophetic pieces of a career that has spanned more than sixty years, Arthur C. Clarke lucidly demonstrates through his nonfiction essays that he not only anticipated many of the twentieth century's greatest scientific innovations but that he also helped to shape the path to come.
Ultimate Egoist: Volume I
The second volume of short stories by Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), one of the great figures in science fiction. The title story is on an unusual relationship that forms between a scientist and the microbes he creates in his laboratory.
3001
A thousand years after the Jupiter Mission, astronaut Frank Poole is recovered and revived. He is intrigued by how much has changed. Then he receives a warning that the Monoliths have decided to destroy the human race.
The Frankenstein Omnibus
The reanimated man / Mary Shelley -- The mummy / Jane Webb -- The new Frankenstein / William Maginn -- The bell-tower / Herman Melville -- The vivisector / Ronald Ross -- The future Eve / Villiers de l'Isle Adam -- The incubated girl / Fred T. Jane -- The surgeon's experiment / W.C. Morrow -- Some experiments with a head / Dick Donovan -- The new Frankenstein / E.E. Kellett -- The man who made a man / Harle Oren Cummins -- Frankenstein II / Leonard Merrick -- The composite brain / Robert S. Carr -- Demons of the film colony / Theodore LeBerthon -- Frankenstein ; or, The man and the monster! / H.M. Milner -- Frankenstein : the man who made a monster / Garrett Ford and Francis Faragoh -- The bride of Frankenstein / John L. Balderston and William Hurlbut -- The workshop of filthy creation / Robert Muller -- The dead man / Fritz Leiber -- The curse of Frankenstein / Jimmy Sangster (cont.) The reanimator / H.P. Lovecraft -- Transformation / Mary Shelley -- The golem / Gustav Meyrink -- Death of a professor / Michael Hervey -- Frankenstein, Unlimited / H.A. Highstone -- IT / Theodore Sturgeon -- Wednesday's child / William Tenn -- Dial "F" for Frankenstein / Arthur C. Clarke -- The plot is the thing / Robert Bloch -- Fortitude / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Summertime was nearly over / Brian Aldiss -- At last, the true story of Frankenstein / Harry Harrison.
Rama II
From the back cover of Bantam paperback December 1990: THE RAMANS ARE BACK... Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed trough our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed -- or had existed -- elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. They are armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational -- and perhaps even deadly.
Tales From Planet Earth
The fiction of Arthur C. Clarke has spanned the universe. He has carried us across unimaginable distances to alien times and places. Yet he has not lost sight of his home. Many of his greatest stories are set-or have their roots-right here on Planet Earth. In this book, Clarke's best stories about our home planet are gathered together. For Arthur C. Clarke, more than any other science fiction writer, "home" is the entire Earth, through all of space and time. In this book, he shows us around his home to share his wonder. He invites us to share his vision and his dream.
2061
A re-visitation of the imaginative future painted by Arthur C. Clarke in his previous two books [2001: A Space Odyssey]and [2010: Odyssey two]. Two expeditions into space are inextricably tangled by human necessity and the immutable laws of physics. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths must once again confront David Bowman - or whatever Bowman has become - a newly independent HAL, and the power of an alien race that has decided Humanity is to play a part in the Evolution of the Galaxy whether it wishes to or not.
Great Science Fiction
White Creatures - short story by Gregory Benford The Singing Diamond - short story by Robert L. Forward Publish and Perish - short story by Paul J. Nahin Skystalk - novelette by Charles Sheffield The Universal Library - short story by Kurd Lasswitz (trans. of Die Universalbibliothek 1904) Long Shot - short story by Vernor Vinge Blackmail - short story by Fred Hoyle Jeannette's Hands - short story by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham] The Warm Space - novelette by David Brin The Wind from the Sun - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke Industrial Accident - novelette by G. Harry Stine [as by Lee Correy] Choice - short story by John R. Pierce The Winnowing - short story by Isaac Asimov Dr. Snow Maiden - short story by Larry Eisenberg On the Fourth Planet - short story by J. F. Bone Learning Theory - short story by James McConnell [as by James V. McConnell] Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death - short story by James Tiptree, Jr. Transfusion - novelette by Chad Oliver In the Beginning - short story by Morton Klass Modulation in All Things - short story by Suzette Haden Elgin The Bones of Charlemagne - novelette by Mario Pei [as by Mario A. Pei]
2010, odyssey two
When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years: Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star-Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL, a stable, intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared? Would there be a sequel? Now all those questions and many more have been answered. In this stunning sequel to his international bestseller, Clarke has written what will truly be one of the great books of the '80s. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement.
The View from Serendip
This book is actually titled, "Be Full of Yourself!" Not a book by Arthur C. Clarke, as advertised.
Curses
Contents: Introduction: Malevolence - essay by Isaac Asimov The Curse - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke Julia Cahill's Curse - shortstory by George Moore The Red Swimmer - novelette by Robert Bloch The Doom of the Griffiths - novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell ] You Know Willie - shortstory by Theodore R. Cogswell Trouble with Water - shortstory by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ] Mad Monkton - novella by Wilkie Collins Long Chromachy of the Crows - shortstory by Seumas MacManus The Little Black Train - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman The Curse of the Catafalques - novelette by F. Anstey A Séance in Summer - shortstory by Thomas F. Monteleone [as by Mario Martin, Jr. ] Transformations - shortstory by Christopher Fahy In Dark New England Days - shortstory by Sarah Orne Jewett The Messenger - novelette by Robert W. Chambers Or the Grasses Grow - shortstory by Avram Davidson The Dollar - shortstory by Morgan Robertson A Hunger in the Blood - novelette by Talmage Powell