Arthur C. Clarke Books

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Arthur C. Clarke was a renowned science fiction author and inventor best known for ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ Born in 1917 in Minehead, Somerset, Clarke came from a family of four children.

Order of Space Odyssey Series

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1 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Description / Buy
2 2010: Odyssey Two 1982 Description / Buy
3 2061: Odyssey Three 1987 Description / Buy
4 3001: The Final Odyssey 1997 Description / Buy

Order of Rama Series with Gentry Lee

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1 Rendezvous with Rama 1973 Description / Buy
2 Rama II ( With: Gentry Lee) 1989 Description / Buy
3 The Garden of Rama ( With: Gentry Lee) 1991 Description / Buy
4 Rama Revealed ( With: Gentry Lee) 1993 Description / Buy
5 Bright Messengers ( By: Gentry Lee) 1995 Description / Buy
6 Double Full Moon Night ( By: Gentry Lee) 1999 Description / Buy
7 The Tranquility Wars ( By: Gentry Lee) 2000 Description / Buy
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Order of A Time Odyssey Series with Stephen Baxter

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1 Time's Eye 2003 Description / Buy
2 Sunstorm 2005 Description / Buy
3 Firstborn 2007 Description / Buy

Order of Life Science Library Series by Alan E. Nourse, Robert O'Brien

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1 Machines ( By: Robert O'Brien) 1964 Description / Buy
2 Man And Space 1964 Description / Buy
3 The Body ( By: Alan E. Nourse) 1964 Description / Buy
4 Ships ( By: Robert O'Brien) 1965 Description / Buy
5 Weather ( By: Robert O'Brien, Philip D. Thompson) 1965 Description / Buy
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Order of Blue Planet Series

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1 The Coast of the Coral 1956 Description / Buy
2 The Reefs of Taprobane 1956 Description / Buy
3 The Treasure of the Great Reef 1964 Description / Buy

Order of Arthur C. Clarke Standalone Novels

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1 Against the Fall of Night 1948 Description / Buy
2 Prelude to Space (Short Story) 1950 Description / Buy
3 The Sands of Mars 1951 Description / Buy
4 Islands in the Sky 1952 Description / Buy
5 Childhood's End 1953 Description / Buy
6 Earthlight 1955 Description / Buy
7 City and the Stars 1956 Description / Buy
8 The Deep Range 1957 Description / Buy
9 A Fall of Moondust 1961 Description / Buy
10 Dolphin Island 1963 Description / Buy
11 Glide Path 1963 Description / Buy
12 The Lost Worlds Of 2001 1971 Description / Buy
13 Imperial Earth 1975 Description / Buy
14 The Fountains of Paradise 1979 Description / Buy
15 The Songs of Distant Earth 1986 Description / Buy
16 July 20, 2019 1986 Description / Buy
17 Cradle ( With: Gentry Lee) 1987 Description / Buy
18 Beyond the Fall of Night ( With: Gregory Benford) 1990 Description / Buy
19 The Ghost from the Grand Banks 1990 Description / Buy
20 The Hammer of God 1993 Description / Buy
21 Richter 10 ( With: Mike McQuay) 1996 Description / Buy
22 The Trigger 1999 Description / Buy
23 The Light of Other Days ( With: Stephen Baxter) 2000 Description / Buy
24 The Last Theorem ( With: Frederik Pohl) 2008 Description / Buy

Order of Arthur C. Clarke Non-Fiction Books

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1 Interplanetary Flight 1950 Description / Buy
2 The Exploration of Space 1951 Description / Buy
3 Boy Beneath the Sea 1958 Description / Buy
4 Voice Across The Sea 1958 Description / Buy
5 Profiles of the Future 1962 Description / Buy
6 Voices from the Sky 1966 Description / Buy
7 The Promise of Space 1968 Description / Buy
8 Into Space ( With: Robert Silverberg) 1971 Description / Buy
9 The View from Serendip 1977 Description / Buy
10 1984: Spring - A Choice of Futures 1984 Description / Buy
11 Astounding Days 1990 Description / Buy
12 How the World Was One 1992 Description / Buy
13 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! 1999 Description / Buy
14 From Narnia To Space Odyssey ( With: C.S. Lewis) 2003 Description / Buy
15 The Exploration of the Moon (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy

Order of Star Science Fiction Series with Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Jack Vance, Chad Oliver, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Gerald Kersh

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1 Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 ( By: Frederik Pohl) 1953 Description / Buy
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Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Series

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1 Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction ( By: Isaac Asimov, Tanith Lee, Phyllis Eisenstein, Gene Wolfe, Barry B. Longyear, John M. Ford, Arnie Bateman, Alan Dean Foster, Martin Gardner, Randall Garrett, Rob Chilson, Ted Reynolds, George Scithers, Richard S. McEnroe, Jeff Duntemann, R.N. Bracewell, K.W. MacAnn, G. Richard Bozarth) 1980 Description / Buy
2 Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far ( By: Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Carter Scholz, Barry B. Longyear, John M. Ford, Jack Williamson, Darrell Schweitzer, John Brunner, Juleen Brantingham, Martin Gardner, Richard Wilson, Milton A. Rothman, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Sharon Webb, Somtow Sucharitkul, Lee Weinstein, Ted Reynolds, George Scithers, F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, William Tuning, Francis E. Izzo, Paul David Novitski, Lee Russell, Seth S. Horowitz, Tol E. Rant, S. Dale, Julie Flores, Tony Sarowitz) 1981 Description / Buy
3 Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own ( By: Connie Willis, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pat Cadigan, Joan D. Vinge, Tanith Lee, Pamela Sargent, Lee Killough, Mary Gentle, Mildred Downey Broxon, Shawna McCarthy, Sharon Webb, Leigh Kennedy, Stephanie A. Smith, Cherie Wilkerson, Julie Stevens, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Cyn Mason, P.A. Kagan, P.J. MacQuarrie, Janet O. Jeppson, Beverly Grant, Hope Athearn) 1983 Description / Buy
4 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! ( By: Shawna McCarthy) 1985 Description / Buy
5 Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! ( By: Connie Willis, George R.R. Martin, Ron Goulart, John Kessel, George Alec Effinger, Robert Thurston, Tanith Lee, Lucius Shepard, Scott Baker, Lillian Carl, Juleen Brantingham, Lee Killough, Ian McDowell, Daphne Castell, Sharon N. Farber, Richard Kearns, Shawna McCarthy, Leigh Kennedy, Gregg Keizer, Kristi Olesen) 1989 Description / Buy
6 Isaac Asimov's Aliens ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1991 Description / Buy
7 Isaac Asimov's Robots ( By: Isaac Asimov, Rob Chilson) 1991 Description / Buy
8 Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite ( By: Isaac Asimov, John M. Ford) 1993 Description / Buy
9 Isaac Asimov's War ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1993 Description / Buy
10 Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1994 Description / Buy
11 Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1995 Description / Buy
12 Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Isaac Asimov, Terry Bisson) 1995 Description / Buy
13 Isaac Asimov's Christmas ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1997 Description / Buy
14 Isaac Asimov's Camelot ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois, Eleanor Arnason) 1998 Description / Buy
15 Isaac Asimov's Detectives ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 1998 Description / Buy
16 Isaac Asimov's Werewolves ( By: Isaac Asimov, Suzy McKee Charnas, Gardner Dozois) 1999 Description / Buy
17 Isaac Asimov's Solar System ( By: Gardner Dozois) 1999 Description / Buy
18 Isaac Asimov's Utopias ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 2000 Description / Buy
19 Isaac Asimov's Father Day ( By: Isaac Asimov, Gardner Dozois) 2001 Description / Buy
20 Isaac Asimov's Halloween ( By: Isaac Asimov) 2001 Description / Buy
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Order of Arthur C. Clarke Short Story Collections

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1 The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke 1938 Description / Buy
2 The Sentinel 1951 Description / Buy
3 Reach for Tomorrow 1956 Description / Buy
4 Tales From The White Hart 1957 Description / Buy
5 Tales of Ten Worlds 1962 Description / Buy
6 The Nine Billion Names of God (Short Story) 1967 Description / Buy
7 The Lion Of Comarre 1968 Description / Buy
8 Expedition to Earth 1968 Description / Buy
9 Of Time and Stars 1972 Description / Buy
10 The Wind From The Sun 1972 Description / Buy
11 A Meeting With Medusa 1988 Description / Buy

Arthur C. Clarke Anthologies

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1 Star Science Fiction Stories 3 1955 Description / Buy
2 Great Tales of Action and Adventure 1958 Description / Buy
3 Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958 1958 Description / Buy
4 50 Short Science Fiction Tales 1963 Description / Buy
5 Novelets of Science Fiction 1963 Description / Buy
6 The Bedside Playboy 1963 Description / Buy
7 Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures 1967 Description / Buy
8 Tales of Time and Space 1969 Description / Buy
9 Futures Unlimited 1969 Description / Buy
10 The Futurists 1972 Description / Buy
11 Alpha 3 1972 Description / Buy
12 Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 1973 Description / Buy
13 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 1974 Description / Buy
14 Other Dimensions 1974 Description / Buy
15 Aliens: 3 Novellas 1977 Description / Buy
16 The Best of British SF 2 1977 Description / Buy
17 The Best of British SF 1 1977 Description / Buy
18 They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures 1979 Description / Buy
19 The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels 1980 Description / Buy
20 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980 Description / Buy
21 Science Fiction A to Z 1982 Description / Buy
22 Space Odyssey 1983 Description / Buy
23 Fourth Planet from the Sun 1984 Description / Buy
24 Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Greatest Scientists 1985 Description / Buy
25 Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow 1987 Description / Buy
26 Science Fiction Stories 1988 Description / Buy
27 Drabble II: Double Century 1990 Description / Buy
28 The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection 1993 Description / Buy
29 The Ultimate Alien 1995 Description / Buy
30 The Young Oxford Book of Aliens 1999 Description / Buy
31 Bangs & Whimpers 1999 Description / Buy
32 Explorers 2000 Description / Buy
33 The Hard SF Renaissance 2003 Description / Buy
34 The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals 2004 Description / Buy
35 The World Turned Upside Down 2005 Description / Buy
36 Galileo's Children 2005 Description / Buy
37 Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology 2006 Description / Buy
38 The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF 2009 Description / Buy
39 From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul 2009 Description / Buy
40 The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction 2010 Description / Buy
41 The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse 2010 Description / Buy
42 Bug-Eyed Monsters & Bimbos 2011 Description / Buy
43 The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack 2013 Description / Buy
44 In Space No One Can Hear You Scream 2013 Description / Buy
45 The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack 2014 Description / Buy
46 The Baen Big Book of Monsters 2014 Description / Buy
47 Grave Predictions 2016 Description / Buy
48 Infinite Stars 2019 Description / Buy
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The author was a curious child, obsessed with science and astronomy. He spent many a night gazing at the stars using his homemade telescope.

His father’s death attracted financial hardships that prevented Clarke from completing his formal education. He started working soon after leaving middle school.

Despite securing a position in the government as a bureaucrat, Clarke’s love for the stars never left him. He spent his days with the British Interplanetary Society championing space travel.

The author was starting to make headway as a writer, experimenting with newsletters and articles when the Second World War entered the picture, interrupting his endeavors and pulling Clarke into the Royal Air Force.

The author thrived during the war. For all its horrors, WWII encouraged Clarke to utilize his technical aptitude. It also inspired several stories and articles, some of which predicted notable technological developments such as geostationary satellite systems.

Once the war ended, Clarke went back to school, attending King’s College, London, and pursuing math and physics. Despite the challenges, the author successfully juggled his responsibilities as a writer and scientist.

After piquing the interest of the public with ‘Interplanetary Flight,’ a nonfiction book that dissected the future of space travel, the author finally published a full-length novel (Prelude to Space).

This was the first of many critically acclaimed works. Clarke became a star, winning the adoration of mainstream audiences while also securing the respect of the science community, which perceived him as a revolutionary thinker.

Eventually, the author moved to Sri Lanka, where he stayed for the rest of his days, dabbling in photography and scuba diving. He developed a fascination with undersea worlds, using his fame to draw attention to underwater safaris.

But his love for astronomy and space never left him. He wrote a book (Profiles of the Future) that made significant predictions about the technological developments and advancements that would occur in the coming centuries.

The author’s renown reached new heights in the 1960s when director Stanley Kubrick turned his stories into ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ one of the most popular science fiction films of all time.

Clarke’s mobility was significantly reduced when he contracted polio. The disease confined him to a wheelchair. But he continued to make waves in the science community.

He created an organization (The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation) that uses grants and awards to improve the quality of life of people in developing nations through technological advancements. Clarke died in 2008 at the age of 90.

Arthur C. Clarke Awards

Clarke won Hugo, Nebula, and John W Campbell Memorial Awards.

Arthur C. Clarke Books into Movies

The Stanley Kubrick movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was based on Clarke’s work. The sequel novel (2010: Odyssey Two) received a film adaptation in 1984.

‘Childhood’s End’ became a three-episode miniseries on the Syfy Channel.

Best Arthur C. Clarke Books

Clarke was knighted in 2000, but he couldn’t receive the honor in person because he wasn’t well enough to travel to London. Clarke’s best books include:

2001: A Space Odyssey: A long time ago, at the proverbial dawn of time, the world was populated by benevolent man-apes that stood on the verge of extinction because of various natural threats.

A mysterious object descended and changed these man-apes, introducing a violent streak, along with a spark for imagination and innovation that allowed the human race to survive.

In 2001, humankind made a discovery so incredible that astronauts were sent out into the solar system for the first time to investigate the enigma.

Rendezvous with Rama: Rama was unlike anything humanity had ever seen. The celestial object was heavy, weighing several trillion tons. It was hurtling through space, towards earth at incredible speeds.

It did not take experts long to realize the truth. Rama was not a natural object. Rama was a spacecraft. For the first time in human history, the world is preparing to receive visitors from another planet.

But who are the Ramans? Where do they come from? What kind of technology do they possess? More importantly, what do they want? Are they peaceful or hostile?

When Does The Next Arthur C. Clarke book come out?

Arthur C. Clarke doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Lost Worlds Of 2001 and was released on November, 28th 2022.

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