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Tagged: Author, Fan.<div class="browsingBtns"> <input class="button PNI previous" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?id=p&entry=clarke_arthur_c'" value="Prev" /> <input class="button PNI next" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/next.php?&entry=clarke_arthur_c'" value="Next" /> <input class="button PNI incoming" type="button" onclick="window.location.href='/incoming.php?entry=clarke_arthur_c'" value="About This Entry" title="What links to the entry; contributor initials explained; how to cite; other information" /> <input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Checklist" onclick="window.location.hash='chklst'" > <input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Alpha" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=clarke_arthur_c&abc'" > <input class="button PNI" type="button" value="Chron" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=clarke_arthur_c'" > <img alt="Icon made by Freepik from www.flaticon.com" style="margin: 0; position: relative; top:-2px;" src="/images/icon-gal.gif"></img> </div> <a href='/gallery.php?id=Clarke-FourGreat.jpg' target='_blank'> <img src='https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/thumbs/Clarke-FourGreat.jpg' alt='pic'></a> (1917-2008) UK author, resident in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death. Born in Minehead, Somerset, after leaving school Clarke came to London in 1936 to work as a civil-servant auditor with HM Exchequer. He was active in fan circles before <a href="/entry/world_war_two">World War Two</a>, through which he served (1941-1946) as a radar instructor with the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the War he entered King's College, London, in 1948 taking his BSc in physics and mathematics. Clarke's strong interest in the frontiers of science was evident early. He was chairman of the British Interplanetary Society 1946-1947, and again 1950-1953. He began publishing professional work of genre interest "Loophole" for <a href="/entry/asf">Astounding</a> in April 1946, though he had previously sold to John W <a href="/entry/campbell_john_w_jr">Campbell</a> Jr the far more famous "Rescue Party", which also appeared in <a href="/entry/asf">Astounding</a> in May 1946; his first professional sale was in fact an article, "Man's Empire of Tomorrow" (Winter 1938 <a href="/entry/tales_of_wonder">Tales of Wonder</a>), though even this was preceded by appearances in <a href="/entry/amateur_magazine">Amateur Magazines</a> with such stories as "Travel by Wire!" (December 1937 <a href="/entry/amateur_science_stories">Amateur Science Stories</a>). In his early years as a writer he three times used the pseudonym Charles Willis, and wrote once as E G O'Brien, these four stories all appearing in UK magazines 1947-1951. Four of Clarke's early pre-professional stories, written for <a href="/entry/fanzine">Fanzines</a> (1937-1942), were reprinted in The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1971 (coll 1973; reissued in 2vols, 1976-1977, the first being inaccurately titled 1932-1955) anonymously edited by Angus <a href="/entry/wells_angus">Wells</a>; a 1930s poem and essay appear in The Fantastic Muse (coll 1992 chap); other very early work has been assembled as Childhood Ends: The Earliest Writings of Arthur C Clarke (coll 1996 chap). Clarke also worked as adviser for the comic <a href="/entry/dan_dare_pilot_of_the_future">Dan Dare – Pilot of the Future</a> for its first six months in 1950. Clarke's early stories are very much <a href="/entry/genre_sf">Genre SF</a>, neatly constructed, usually turning on a single scientific point, often ending with a sting in the tail. Some are rather ponderously humorous. His first two novels in book form appeared in 1951: Prelude to Space: A Compelling Realistic Novel of Interplanetary Flight (1951; rev without subtitle 1953 UK; rev 1954 US; vt Master of Space 1961 US; vt The Space Dreamers 1969 US) as <a href="/entry/galaxy_science_fiction_novels">Galaxy Science Fiction Novel</a> #3, and The Sands of Mars (1951; vt Sands of Mars 1952). Both suffer from the rather wooden prose which Clarke later fashioned into a more flexible instrument, though he was never able to escape an occasional stiffness in his writing. They are, in effect, works of optimistic propaganda for science (see <a href="/entry/optimism_and_pessimism">Optimism and Pessimism</a>), with human problems rather mechanically worked out against a background of scientific discovery. In this category of his early work, it was with the science that Clarke's imagination flared into life. Islands in the Sky (1952), a juvenile about a boy in an orbital <a href="/entry/space_stations">Space Station</a>, followed the same pattern. A different note is evident in Expedition to Earth (coll 1953), which includes "The Sentinel" (Spring 1951 <a href="/entry/10_story_fantasy">10 Story Fantasy</a> as "Sentinel of Eternity"; vt in Expedition to Earth, coll 1953). A simple but haunting story, it tells of the discovery of an <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> artefact, created by an advanced race millions of years earlier, standing enigmatically on top of a mountain on the Moon. Many years later it became the basis of <a href="/entry/2001_a_space_odyssey">2001: A Space Odyssey</a> (1968), for which Clarke wrote the script with Stanley <a href="/entry/kubrick_stanley">Kubrick</a>. The novelization, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; with 2 related stories added, rev as coll 1990), was written, by Clarke alone, on the basis of the script after the film had been made (see below for sequels). An account of Clarke's connection with the film can be found in his The Lost Worlds of 2001 (1972), which also prints alternative script versions of key scenes. With "The Sentinel" came the first clear appearance of the Clarke paradox: that the man who of all sf writers of his generation was most closely identified with knowledgeable, technological <a href="/entry/hard_sf">Hard SF</a> was at the same time strongly attracted to the metaphysical, even to the mystical; that the man who in sf histories is often seen as standing for the boundless optimism of the soaring human spirit, and for the idea (strongly presented in John W <a href="/entry/campbell_john_w_jr">Campbell</a> Jr's <a href="/entry/asf">Astounding</a>) that there is nothing humanity cannot accomplish, is best remembered for images of humanity childlike in stature compared to the ancient, inscrutable wisdom of <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> races. There is something attractive, even moving, in what can be seen in Freudian terms as an unhappy mankind crying out for a lost father; certainly it is the closest thing sf has yet produced to an analogy for <a href="/entry/religion">Religion</a>, and the longing for God. The sense that human <a href="/entry/evolution">Evolution</a> may lead to an impersonal, all-encompassing <a href="/entry/transcendence">Transcendence</a> of individual beings reaches its fullest and most hypnotic early expression in Clarke, the poetic hauntedness of his style almost certainly deriving at least in part from Lord <a href="/entry/dunsany_lord">Dunsany</a>, though the example of earlier authors of the British <a href="/entry/scientific_romance">Scientific Romance</a> like Olaf <a href="/entry/stapledon_olaf">Stapledon</a> was ultimately more telling. Clarke's marriage of tone and content soon became definitive, and his complexly rooted presentation of this material can be detected in the decidedly more optimistic and action-oriented <a href="/entry/uplift">Uplift</a> tales of David <a href="/entry/brin_david">Brin</a> and others. More clearly, Clarke deeply influenced later British writers of a similar bent like Stephen <a href="/entry/baxter_stephen">Baxter</a>, who became his principal twenty-first-century "collaborator": their joint work began with The Light of Other Days (2000), a remarkably and Baxterianly exhaustive exploration of the <a href="/entry/time_viewer">Time Viewer</a> theme which clearly affirms both authors' affinity with the British style of <a href="/entry/cosmology">Cosmological</a> imagination. Although the intertwining of <a href="/entry/religion">Religion</a> and <a href="/entry/evolution">Evolutionary</a> <a href="/entry/transcendence">Transcendence</a> was evident in "The Sentinel", and even clearer in the iconography of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, at the end of which mankind is seen literally as a foetus, Clarke gave it its most potent literary expression in two more books from 1953 which are still considered by many critics to be his finest, and in which he comes close to bringing the tradition of the UK <a href="/entry/scientific_romance">Scientific Romance</a> to its natural climax. They are Against the Fall of Night (November 1948 <a href="/entry/startling_stories">Startling</a>; 1953; exp and much rev vt The City and the Stars 1956) – also assembled with "The Lion of Comarre" (August 1949 <a href="/entry/tws">Thrilling Wonder</a>) as The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night (coll 1968) – and Childhood's End (April 1950 <a href="/entry/famous_fantastic_mysteries">Famous Fantastic Mysteries</a> as "Guardian Angel"; much exp 1953; rev 1990). Both the original and the longer versions of Against the Fall of Night have long been simultaneously available. Indeed, the shorter version was republished, along with a sequel, very different in tone and theme, by Gregory <a href="/entry/benford_gregory">Benford</a>, as Beyond the Fall of Night (anth/omni 1990; vt Arthur C Clarke – Against the Fall of Night/Gregory Benford – Beyond the Fall of Night 1991). The longer version, The City and the Stars, is one of the strongest tales of <a href="/entry/conceptual_breakthrough">Conceptual Breakthrough</a> in genre sf. Alvin, a young man in the enclosed utopian city of Diaspar, on Earth in the <a href="/entry/far_future">Far Future</a>, becomes impatient at the <a href="/entry/technology">Technology</a>-mediated stasis of the perfect life, and after many adventures makes his way outside the city to Lys, another <a href="/entry/utopias">Utopia</a> but of a different kind, which stresses closeness to Nature. Ultimately Alvin finds an <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> spaceship left behind millennia ago, visits the stars, and finally discovers the true nature of the cosmic perspective which has been hidden from both Lys and Diaspar. The final passages blend a sense of loss and of <a href="/entry/transcendence">Transcendence</a> with almost mystical intensity. Clarke began working on this story as early as 1937, and the <a href="/entry/dying_earth">Dying Earth</a> ambience permeating the various versions of the tale is clearly central to all his thinking and feeling; it is perhaps his most memorable work, and The City and the Stars is distinctly superior to the more awkward earlier version (which does, all the same, have an almost cartoon-like clarity and freshness). As noted, it makes more palatable and humanly moving the evolutionary perspective of Olaf <a href="/entry/stapledon_olaf">Stapledon</a>, whose works Clarke greatly admired, as does Childhood's End, in which the children of humankind's last generation reach <a href="/entry/transcendence">Transcendence</a> under the tutelage of satanic-seeming aliens, eventually to fuse with a cosmic overmind (see <a href="/entry/omega_point">Omega Point</a>) – an apotheosis which is forever to be denied both to their ordinary human parents and to the alien tutors. The City and the Stars was later transformed into a cantata by the composer David <a href="/entry/bedford_david">Bedford</a>, the narration between movements being read by Clarke at its performance in 2001. Clarke continued to publish sf with some frequency over the next decade, with Earthlight (August 1951 <a href="/entry/tws">Thrilling Wonder</a>; exp 1955), Reach for Tomorrow (coll 1956), The Deep Range (April 1954 <a href="/entry/argosy_the">Argosy</a> UK; exp 1957), Tales from the White Hart (coll of linked stories 1957), The Other Side of the Sky (coll 1958), Across the Sea of Stars (coll 1959), A Fall of Moondust (1961), Tales of Ten Worlds (coll 1962), Dolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea (1963), a juvenile, and Glide Path (1963), his only non-sf novel, about the development of radar. The most interesting of these are The Deep Range, about <a href="/entry/near_future">Near-Future</a> farming <a href="/entry/under_the_sea">Under the Sea</a>, which contains some of Clarke's most evocative writing, and A Fall of Moondust, a realistic account – in the light of theories about its surface now known to have been mistaken – of an accident to a surface transport on a lightly colonized <a href="/entry/moon">Moon</a>. "The Star" (November 1955 <a href="/entry/infinity_science_fiction">Infinity Science Fiction</a>), a short story of great pathos describing the discovery that the star put in the sky by God to prefigure the Birth at Bethlehem was a supernova that destroyed an entire alien race, won a <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a>. A good retrospective collection of stories, all but one reprinted from collections listed above, is The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C Clarke (coll 1967). After 1962, only a small amount of fiction by Clarke appeared in sf magazines, though two of his most interesting stories date from this period: "Sunjammer" (March 1964 <a href="/entry/boys_life">Boys' Life</a>; vt "The Wind from the Sun" in The Wind from the Sun, coll 1972), which is about the <a href="/entry/solar_wind">Solar Wind</a>, and A Meeting with Medusa (December 1971 <a href="/entry/playboy">Playboy</a>; 1988 chap dos), winner of a <a href="/entry/nebula">Nebula</a> in 1972 for Best Novella, the story of a <a href="/entry/cyborgs">Cyborg</a> explorer meeting <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> life in the atmosphere of <a href="/entry/jupiter">Jupiter</a>. Both stories are reprinted in The Wind from the Sun: Stories of the Space Age (coll 1972; with 3 vignettes added rev 1987), his sixth and last individual collection (not counting reprint volumes or those adding small amounts of minor material). More than One Universe: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (coll 1991) assembled most but by no means all of his short work to that date; The Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke (coll 2000) is very nearly complete. By the 1960s most of Clarke's creative energies had been diverted into writing nonfiction books and articles, many of them – not listed here – about undersea exploration; he was an enthusiastic skin-diver himself, one reason for his residence in Sri Lanka. His popularizations of science, which won him the UNESCO Kalinga Prize in 1962, are closely related to his fiction, in that the stories often fictionalize specific ideas discussed in the factual pieces. He is probably most famous as an author of nonfiction for his early essay, "Extra-Terrestrial Relays: Can Rocket Stations Give World-wide Radio Coverage?" (October 1945 Wireless World), which was the first piece to propose – certainly the first in English, though Hermann <a href="/entry/oberth_hermann">Oberth</a> has also been given the credit for generating the idea as early as 1923 – the concept of the geostationary satellite. He soon began publishing nonfiction books, interesting still though some are out-of-date, with Interplanetary Flight (1950; rev 1960), whose publication in fact preceded that of his first novel in book form, The Exploration of Space (1951; rev 1959; original text with new intro 1979) and The Exploration of the Moon (1954). The repeatedly updated Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible (1962; rev 1973; rev 1984; rev 2000) sets out his principles of <a href="/entry/prediction">Prediction</a> and <a href="/entry/futures_studies">Futures Studies</a>, including <a href="/entry/clarkes_laws">Clarke's Laws</a>. For other (selected) titles see Checklist below. Later volumes of interest (usually assembling old and new material) include The View from Serendip (coll 1977), 1984: Spring: A Choice of Futures (coll 1984), Ascent to Orbit: A Scientific Autobiography: The Technical Writings of Arthur C. Clarke (coll 1984), By Space Possessed: Essays on the Exploration of Space (coll 1988) and Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998 (coll 1999; vt Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century as it Happened 1999), which assembles much of his most significant nonfiction work. Clarke's early professional experience as assistant editor of Science Abstracts 1949-1950, before he became a full-time writer, paid off amply, and The Exploration of Space won a nonfiction <a href="/entry/international_fantasy_award">International Fantasy Award</a> in 1952. Clarke became well known all over the world when he appeared as commentator on CBS TV for the Apollo 11, 12 and 15 Moon missions. He later presented a number of television programmes, including the series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World at the beginning of the 1980s. His science writing is lucid and interesting; his only rival as an sf writer of significance who was also of importance as a scientific journalist is Isaac <a href="/entry/asimov_isaac">Asimov</a>. After the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke became perhaps the best-known sf writer in the world, and in America by far and away the most popular foreign sf writer. A few years later he signed a contract, for a sum of money larger than anything previously paid in sf publishing, to write three further novels. These turned out to be Rendezvous with Rama (1973; minor revs 2020), Imperial Earth: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (cut 1975; with 10,000 words restored vt Imperial Earth 1976) and The Fountains of Paradise (1979; exp with afterword 1989). All were bestsellers; all had a mixed critical reception, though Rendezvous with Rama scooped the awards: the Hugo, Nebula, <a href="/entry/john_w_campbell_memorial_award">John W Campbell Memorial Award</a> and <a href="/entry/bsfa_award">BSFA Award</a>. To what extent the book deserved it, and to what extent the awards celebrated the return of a much-loved figure to the field after many years' comparative silence, is unclear. All the old Clarke themes are there in the story of a huge, apparently derelict <a href="/entry/aliens">Alien</a> <a href="/entry/world_ships">World Ship</a> which enters the solar system, and its very partial exploration by a party of humans. As an artefact, the ship is a symbol of almost mythic significance, enigmatic, powerful and fascinating (see <a href="/entry/discovery">Discovery</a>), transcending any sense that it may in the end be a <a href="/entry/big_dumb_objects">Big Dumb Object</a>, and the book derives considerable power from its description. The human characterization, on the other hand, is perfunctory, perhaps deliberately so; some sidebar content does interestingly suggest that sexual practices and compacts have been much sophisticated (two men in the expedition clearly live together on board ship, while sharing a wife back home). Imperial Earth tells of relations between Earth and the <a href="/entry/outer_planets">Outer Planets</a>, and contains a rather meandering intrigue involving <a href="/entry/clones">Clones</a>; there are some interesting speculations about <a href="/entry/black_holes">Black Holes</a>. The Fountains of Paradise, a much better book than Imperial Earth – it won the 1980 <a href="/entry/hugo">Hugo</a> for Best Novel – tells of the construction on Earth of a <a href="/entry/space_elevator">Space Elevator</a> 36,000 kilometres high, and combines Clarke's favourite themes of technological <a href="/entry/evolution">Evolution</a> and mankind's apotheosis with moving directness; it is the most considerable work of the latter part of Clarke's career. The 1980s and after provided an astonishing coda to all of this. These decades were – in terms of the number of books appearing with his name on the cover – unexpectedly productive, unexpectedly because Clarke was well into his sixties, and had previously announced that Fountains of Paradise would be his last work of fiction. However, soon there appeared 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (see above) which, where the first novel and film differ, follows the film. This was made into a film directed by Peter <a href="/entry/hyams_peter">Hyams</a>, <a href="/entry/2010">2010</a> (1984; vt 2010: The Year We Make Contact). Neither book nor film is as distinguished as the original, but the book is better than the film. It was followed by 2061: Odyssey Three (1988), whose open-endedness correctly suggested that the Odyssey saga of alien intervention might not yet be complete; 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) – though it declaredly puts finis to the sequence, giving a resurrected astronaut Frank Poole a guided tour of the new world he has helped to create – was itself followed, very tangentially, by the A Time Odyssey sequence comprising Time's Eye (2004) (a geographical <a href="/entry/timeslip">Timeslip</a> story), Sunstorm (2005) and Firstborn (2007), all as by Clarke and Stephen <a href="/entry/baxter_stephen">Baxter</a>. These novels present an <a href="/entry/alternate_history">Alternate History</a> version of the 2001 <a href="/entry/forerunners">Forerunners</a> who in the original book and film kick-started human <a href="/entry/evolution">Evolution</a> via the famous black monolith but are here determined to eliminate us. The trilogy reworks themes central to both authors. A little earlier Clarke had published The Songs of Distant Earth (June 1958 <a href="/entry/if">If</a>; much exp 1986), which also derives the film scenario, also published as "The Songs of Distant Earth" (September 1981 Omni); the tale quietly and without much action recounts the meeting of an isolated human colony on a remote planet with one of the last <a href="/entry/spaceships">Spaceships</a> to leave a doomed Earth, and the cultural clashes that follow. In the mid-1980s, however, Clarke developed a debilitating and continuing illness affecting the nervous system, which began inevitably to affect his production. His illness meant that much of his work was necessarily collaborative. While some of this was found disappointing by the critics, and even reviled, there is considerable gallantry in his having made the effort at all, more especially as his earnings, it has been said, were intended to shore up various charitable enterprises he had founded, in order to render them financially secure after his death. Of these, the quasi-charity most closely identified with sf is the <a href="/entry/arthur_c_clarke_award">Arthur C Clarke Award</a> annually given for the best novel published in Great Britain during the previous year, although it emerged after Clarke's death that future funding for this award had not in fact been secured. The collaborations began with Cradle (1988) with Gentry <a href="/entry/lee_gentry">Lee</a> and, also with Lee, three sequels to Rendezvous with Rama: Rama II (1989), The Garden of Rama (1991) and Rama Revealed (1993). Most of the writing seems to have been Lee's, whose style is less compact and more stereotyped than Clarke's; these books all have moments of embarrassing prose reminiscent of popular romance, though they are progressively more confidently written. A more interesting partnership was that between Gregory <a href="/entry/benford_gregory">Benford</a> and Clarke, the former (as noted above) writing a sequel to the latter's 1948 novella Against the Fall of Night. Clarke also franchised out (see <a href="/entry/shared_worlds">Shared Worlds</a>) the Venus Prime series to Paul <a href="/entry/preuss_paul">Preuss</a> (whom see for details), each novel having some basis in a Clarke short story. The series begins with Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime, Volume 1: Breaking Strain (1987), based on "Breaking Strain" (December 1949 <a href="/entry/tws">Thrilling Wonder</a> as "Thirty Seconds – Thirty Days"; vt in No Place Like Earth, anth 1952, ed John <a href="/entry/carnell_john">Carnell</a>). The fact-and-fiction anthology Project Solar Sail (anth 1990) has a cover which says it is edited by Clarke, but a reading of the title page suggests the true editor, here "Managing Editor", was David <a href="/entry/brin_david">Brin</a>. Clarke's collaborations with Stephen <a href="/entry/baxter_stephen">Baxter</a> are discussed above. A final collaboration came about when, after drafting some 15,000 words, Clarke found himself unable to complete a projected novel and turned it over to Frederik <a href="/entry/pohl_frederik">Pohl</a>: The Last Theorem (2008), with Pohl, combines themes of <a href="/entry/mathematics">Mathematics</a> (Fermat's Last Theorem) and impending <a href="/entry/invasion">Invasion</a> by <a href="/entry/aliens">Aliens</a> who plan to exterminate humanity. After 1988 there were, however, four books by Clarke alone, including 3001: The Final Odyssey, referred to in context above. Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography (1989) consists of enjoyable reminiscences of his own literary life, with a good amount of material on other writers, both these topics being often seen in relation to the magazine <a href="/entry/asf">Astounding Science-Fiction</a>. Perhaps surprisingly in the midst of so many collaborations, two further solo novels appeared. The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990) is an interesting tale of an attempt to raise the <a href="/entry/titanic">Titanic</a> in the early twenty-first century; it is indubitably Clarkean, perhaps a little ghostlike, much of the story pared to the bone, though typically containing a technical (and neatly symbolic) diversion into the <a href="/entry/mathematics">Mathematics</a> of the Mandelbrot set. The Hammer of God (Fall 1992 Time Magazine; much exp 1993), which hangs a number of speculations on a thin narrative involving an <a href="/entry/asteroids">Asteroid</a> bent on colliding with Earth, is also remote and telegraphic in the telling. For many years until his death Clarke was president of the <a href="/entry/british_science_fiction_association">British Science Fiction Association</a> and patron of the <a href="/entry/science_fiction_foundation">Science Fiction Foundation</a>, and at the ceremony formalizing the housing of the latter's research collection with the University of Liverpool, he received an honorary doctorate from the University, by videolink; he also received many other awards not directly linked to his sf work, including the Association of Space Explorers' Special Achievement Award. But for most readers Clarke remains primarily an sf figure: indeed, the very personification of sf. Never a "literary" author, he nonetheless always wrote with lucidity and candour, often with grace, sometimes with a cold, sharp evocativeness that produced some of the most memorable images in sf. He is deservedly seen as a central figure in the development of post-World War Two sf, especially in his liberal, optimistic view of the possible benefits of <a href="/entry/technology">Technology</a> (though one that is by no means unaware of its dangers), and in his development of the Stapledonian theme of cosmic perspective and <a href="/entry/transcendence">Transcendence</a>, in which humanity is seen as reaching out like a child to an alien Universe which may treat us as a godlike parent would, or may respond with cool indifference. Clarke received the <a href="/entry/sfwa_grand_master_award">SFWA Grand Master Award</a> in 1986; he was inducted into the <a href="/entry/sf_hall_of_fame">Science Fiction Hall of Fame</a> in 1997; and he was knighted in 1998. [PN/JC] see also: <a href="/entry/advertising">Advertising</a>; <a href="/entry/agriculture">Agriculture</a>; <a href="/entry/ai">AI</a>; <a href="/entry/children_in_sf">Children in SF</a>; <a href="/entry/childrens_sf">Children's SF</a>; <a href="/entry/christ">Christ</a>; <a href="/entry/cities">Cities</a>; <a href="/entry/club_story">Club Story</a>; <a href="/entry/colonization_of_other_worlds">Colonization of Other Worlds</a>; <a href="/entry/comets">Comets</a>; <a href="/entry/computers">Computers</a>; <a href="/entry/del_rey_books">Del Rey Books</a>; <a href="/entry/dimensions">Dimensions</a>; <a href="/entry/end_of_the_world">End of the World</a>; <a href="/entry/eschatology">Eschatology</a>; <a href="/entry/fantastic_voyages">Fantastic Voyages</a>; <a href="/entry/fantasy">Fantasy</a>; <a href="/entry/generation_starships">Generation Starships</a>; <a href="/entry/gods_and_demons">Gods and Demons</a>; <a href="/entry/golden_age_of_sf">Golden Age of SF</a>; <a href="/entry/gravity">Gravity</a>; <a href="/entry/history_of_sf">History of SF</a>; <a href="/entry/hive_minds">Hive Minds</a>; <a href="/entry/humour">Humour</a>; <a href="/entry/internet">Internet</a>; <a href="/entry/invention">Invention</a>; <a href="/entry/leisure">Leisure</a>; <a href="/entry/longevity_in_writers">Longevity in Writers</a>; <a href="/entry/magic">Magic</a>; <a href="/entry/mars">Mars</a>; <a href="/entry/media_landscape">Media Landscape</a>; <a href="/entry/memory_edit">Memory Edit</a>; <a href="/entry/metaphysics">Metaphysics</a>; <a href="/entry/music">Music</a>; <a href="/entry/mythology">Mythology</a>; <a href="/entry/pastoral">Pastoral</a>; <a href="/entry/perception">Perception</a>; <a href="/entry/physics">Physics</a>; <a href="/entry/power_sources">Power Sources</a>; <a href="/entry/psi_powers">Psi Powers</a>; <a href="/entry/pyramid_books">Pyramid Books</a>; <a href="/entry/race_in_sf">Race in SF</a>; <a href="/entry/radio">Radio</a>; <a href="/entry/rays">Rays</a>; <a href="/entry/retro_hugo">Retro Hugo</a>; <a href="/entry/robert_a_heinlein_award">Robert A Heinlein Award</a>; <a href="/entry/rockets">Rockets</a>; <a href="/entry/science-fiction_five-yearly">Science-Fiction Five-Yearly</a>; <a href="/entry/sf_music">SF Music</a>; <a href="/entry/scientists">Scientists</a>; <a href="/entry/seiun_award">Seiun Award</a>; <a href="/entry/shakespeare_william">Shakespeare</a>; <a href="/entry/space_flight">Space Flight</a>; <a href="/entry/space_habitats">Space Habitats</a>; <a href="/entry/stars">Stars</a>; <a href="/entry/sun">Sun</a>; <a href="/entry/superman">Superman</a>; <a href="/entry/terraforming">Terraforming</a>; <a href="/entry/time_travel">Time Travel</a>; <a href="/entry/transportation">Transportation</a>; <a href="/entry/virtual_reality">Virtual Reality</a>; <a href="/entry/weather_control">Weather Control</a>. <h3 id="chklst">Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE</h3> born Minehead, Somerset: 16 December 1917 died Colombo, Sri Lanka: 19 March 2008 works <input type="button" value="Alphabetical" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=clarke_arthur_c&abc'"> <input type="button" value="Chronological" class="button PNI" onclick="window.location.href='/chron.php?id=clarke_arthur_c'"> series 2001: A Space Odyssey <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=2001+A+Space+Odyssey&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">2001: A Space Odyssey</a> (New York: New American Library, 1968) [tie to the film <a href="/entry/2001_a_space_odyssey">2001: A Space Odyssey</a>: 2001: A Space Odyssey: hb/Robert McCall] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=2001+A+Space+Odyssey&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">2001: A Space Odyssey</a> (London: Century/Legend, 1990) [tie: exp as coll: with two related stories added: 2001: A Space Odyssey: pb/Peter Andrew Jones]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=2010+Odyssey+Two&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">2010: Odyssey Two</a> (Huntington Woods, Michigan: Phantasia Press, 1982) [tie: see also <a href="/entry/2010">2010</a>: 2001: A Space Odyssey: hb/Paul <a href="/entry/lehr_paul">Lehr</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=2061+Odyssey+Three&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">2061: Odyssey Three</a> (London: Grafton, 1988) [tie: 2001: A Space Odyssey: hb/Michael <a href="/entry/whelan_michael">Whelan</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=3001+The+Final+Odyssey&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">3001: The Final Odyssey</a> (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1997) [tie: 2001: A Space Odyssey: hb/David <a href="/entry/stevenson_david">Stevenson</a>]</li> </ul> Rama <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rendezvous+with+Rama&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rendezvous with Rama</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1973) [Rama: hb/Bruce <a href="/entry/pennington_bruce">Pennington</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rendezvous+with+Rama&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rendezvous with Rama</a> (London: The Folio Society, 2020) [copyright page cites "minor emendations": introduction by John <a href="/entry/clute_john">Clute</a>: illus/hb/Matt Griffin]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rama+II&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rama II</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1989) with Gentry <a href="/entry/lee_gentry">Lee</a> [Rama: hb/Paul Swendsen]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Garden+of+Rama&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Garden of Rama</a> (New York: Bantam, 1991) with Gentry <a href="/entry/lee_gentry">Lee</a> [Rama: hb/John Brettoner]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rama+Revealed&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rama Revealed</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1993) with Gentry <a href="/entry/lee_gentry">Lee</a> [Rama: hb/Bob Corley] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rama+The+Omnibus&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rama; The Omnibus</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 2011) with Gentry <a href="/entry/lee_gentry">Lee</a> [omni of the four above: Rama: pb/]</li> </ul></li> </ul> A Time Odyssey <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Time+Eye&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Time's Eye</a> (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2004) with Stephen <a href="/entry/baxter_stephen">Baxter</a> [tie: A Time Odyssey: hb/David <a href="/entry/stevenson_david">Stevenson</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Sunstorm&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Sunstorm</a> (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2005) with Stephen <a href="/entry/baxter_stephen">Baxter</a> [tie: A Time Odyssey: hb/David <a href="/entry/stevenson_david">Stevenson</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Firstborn&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Firstborn</a> (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2007) with Stephen <a href="/entry/baxter_stephen">Baxter</a> [tie: A Time Odyssey: hb/David <a href="/entry/stevenson_david">Stevenson</a>]</li> </ul> individual titles <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Prelude+to+Space+A+Compelling+Realistic+Novel+of&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Prelude to Space: A Compelling Realistic Novel of Interplanetary Flight</a> (New York: World Editions, Inc/Galaxy Science Fiction Novel, 1951) [pb/Bunch] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Prelude+to+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Prelude to Space</a> (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1953) [rev of the above: hb/Gerard Quinn] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Prelude+to+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Prelude to Space</a> (New York: Gnome Press, 1954) [rev of the above: hb/Ed <a href="/entry/emshwiller_ed">Emshwiller</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Master+of+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Master of Space</a> (New York: Lancer Books, 1961) [vt of the above: pb/Oscar Liebman]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Space+Dreamers&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Space Dreamers</a> (New York: Lancer Books, 1969) [vt of the above: pb/Howard Winters]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Sands+of+Mars&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Sands of Mars</a> (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1951) [hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Sands+of+Mars&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Sands of Mars</a> (Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press, 1952) [vt of the above: hb/Ric <a href="/entry/binkley_ric">Binkley</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Prelude+to+Mars+An+Omnibus+Containing+the&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Prelude to Mars: An Omnibus Containing the Complete Novels Prelude to Space and The Sands of Mars, and Sixteen Short Stories</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1965) [omni of the above plus Prelude to Space and other material: hb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Islands+in+the+Sky&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Islands in the Sky</a> (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1952) [hb/Peter Quinn]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Against+the+Fall+of+Night&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Against the Fall of Night</a> (New York: Gnome Press, 1953) [first version appeared November 1948 <a href="/entry/startling_stories">Startling Stories</a>: hb/Kelly <a href="/entry/freas_kelly">Freas</a>, here credited as Frank Kelly Frease (sic)] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+City+and+the+Stars&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The City and the Stars</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956) [rev vt of the above: hb/George <a href="/entry/salter_george">Salter</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Lion+of+Comarre+and+Against+the+Fall+of+Night&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Lion of Comarre and Against the Fall of Night</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1968) [coll: including the above plus "The Lion of Comarre" from <a href="/entry/tws">Thrilling Wonder Stories</a>, August 1949: hb/Carl Smith]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Beyond+the+Fall+of+Night&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Beyond the Fall of Night</a> (New York: Ace/Putnam, 1990) with Gregory <a href="/entry/benford_gregory">Benford</a> [anth/omni: including Against the Fall of Night, here unchanged and internally titled "Part I", plus its <a href="/entry/sequels_by_other_hands">Sequel by Another Hand</a>, by Benford, internally titled "Part II": hb/Ron Russell] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke+-+Against+the+Fall+of&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C Clarke – Against the Fall of Night/Gregory Benford – Beyond the Fall of Night</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1991) [anth/omni: vt of the above: hb/David Farren]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+City+and+the+Stars+and+The+Sands+of+Mars&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The City and the Stars and The Sands of Mars</a> (New York: Warner Aspect, 2001) [omni of the above plus The Sands of Mars: pb/Don <a href="/entry/dixon_don">Dixon</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Childhood+End&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Childhood's End</a> (New York: Ballantine Books, 1953) [early version appeared April 1950 <a href="/entry/famous_fantastic_mysteries">Famous Fantastic Mysteries</a> as "Guardian Angel": here much exp: hb/Richard <a href="/entry/powers_richard_m">Powers</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=An+Arthur+C+Clarke+Omnibus&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">An Arthur C. Clarke Omnibus</a> (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1965) [omni of the above plus Prelude to Space and Expedition to Earth: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Childhood+End&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Childhood's End</a> (London: Pan Books, 1990) [rev of the above: containing a new first chapter replacing "Prologue": pb/Chris <a href="/entry/moore_chris">Moore</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Childhood+End&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Childhood's End</a> (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2001) [rev of the above: original "Prologue" restored as first chapter; 1990 first chapter included as appendix: pb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Earthlight&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Earthlight</a> (New York: Ballantine Books, 1953) [exp from "Earthlight" (August 1951 <a href="/entry/tws">Thrilling Wonder</a>): hb/Richard <a href="/entry/powers_richard_m">Powers</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Across+the+Sea+of+Stars+An+Omnibus+Containing&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Across the Sea of Stars: An Omnibus Containing the Complete Novels Childhood's End and Earthlight, and Eighteen Other Short Stories</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959) [omni of the above plus other material as per subtitle: hb/Arthur Hawkins]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Space+Trilogy&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Space Trilogy</a> (London: Gollancz, 2001) [omni of the above plus The Sands of Mars and Islands in the Sky: pb/John <a href="/entry/harris_john">Harris</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Deep+Range&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Deep Range</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1957) [early version first appeared April 1954 <a href="/entry/argosy_the">Argosy</a> UK and also in Star SF #3 (anth 1954) edited by Frederik <a href="/entry/pohl_frederik">Pohl</a>: here much exp: hb/Edgar Parker] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=From+the+Ocean+From+the+Stars+An+Omnibus&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">From the Ocean, From the Stars: An Omnibus Containing the Complete Novels The Deep Range and The City and the Stars and Twenty-Four Short Stories</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962) [omni of the above plus The City and the Stars and The Other Side of the Sky: hb/Arthur Hawkins]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Four+Great+SF+Novels&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Four Great SF Novels</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1978) [omni: assembling the above plus The City and the Stars, A Fall of Moondust and Rendezvous with Rama: hb/Chris <a href="/entry/foss_chris">Foss</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=2001+A+Space+Odyssey+The+City+and+the+Stars&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">2001: A Space Odyssey; The City and the Stars; The Deep Range; A Fall of Moondust; Rendezvous with Rama</a> (London: Octopus, 1985) [omni: exp vt of the above: adding 2001: A Space Odyssey: hb/Chris <a href="/entry/moore_chris">Moore</a>]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Dolphin+Island+A+Story+of+the+People+of+the+Sea&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Dolphin Island: A Story of the People of the Sea</a> (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963) [hb/Alex <a href="/entry/schomburg_alex">Schomburg</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Dark+Blue+Depths+Adventures+from+Inner+to&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Dark Blue Depths: Adventures from Inner to Outer Space</a> (New York: ibooks, 2005) [omni of the above plus Island in the Sky: pb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Glide+Path&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Glide Path</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1963) [hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Imperial+Earth+A+Fantasy+of+Love+and+Discord&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Imperial Earth: A Fantasy of Love and Discord</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1975) [hb/Bruce <a href="/entry/pennington_bruce">Pennington</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Imperial+Earth&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Imperial Earth</a> (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976) [exp vt of the above: 10,000 words restored from manuscript: hb/Paul <a href="/entry/bacon_paul">Bacon</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Fountains+of+Paradise&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Fountains of Paradise</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979) [hb/Terry Oakes] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Fountains+of+Paradise&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Fountains of Paradise</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1989) [rev: afterword expanded: pb/Terry Oakes]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Songs+of+Distant+Earth&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Songs of Distant Earth</a> (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1986) [early versions appeared June 1958 <a href="/entry/if">If</a> and (in film scenario form) September 1981 Omni: hb/Michael <a href="/entry/whelan_michael">Whelan</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=3001+The+Final+Odyssey/The+Songs+of+Distant+Earth&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">3001: The Final Odyssey/The Songs of Distant Earth</a> (London: Grafton, 2004) [omni of the above plus 3001: The Final Odyssey: pb/Chris <a href="/entry/moore_chris">Moore</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ghost+from+the+Grand+Banks&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ghost from the Grand Banks</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1990) [hb/Tom Stimpson] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Ghost+from+the+Grand+Banks+and+The+Deep+Range&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Ghost from the Grand Banks and The Deep Range</a> (New York: Warner Books/Aspect, 2001) [omni of the above plus The Deep Range: pb/Don <a href="/entry/dixon_don">Dixon</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Hammer+of+God&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Hammer of God</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1993) [hb/Peter Mennim]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Last+Theorem&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Last Theorem</a> (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 2008) with Frederik <a href="/entry/pohl_frederik">Pohl</a> [hb/David <a href="/entry/stevenson_david">Stevenson</a>]</li> </ul> further "collaborations" It is generally understood that despite his prominent co-author credits, Clarke's input into these works was minimal and chiefly conceptual. <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Cradle&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Cradle</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1988) with Gentry <a href="/entry/lee_gentry">Lee</a> [hb/David Scutt]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Richter+Ten&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Richter Ten</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1996) with Mike <a href="/entry/mcquay_mike">McQuay</a> [hb/Splash]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Trigger&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Trigger</a> (London: HarperCollins/Voyager, 1999) with Michael <a href="/entry/kube-mcdowell_michael_p">Kube-McDowell</a> [hb/Fred <a href="/entry/gambino_fred">Gambino</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Light+of+Other+Days&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Light of Other Days</a> (New York: Tor, 2000) with Stephen <a href="/entry/baxter_stephen">Baxter</a> [hb/Photodisk Agency]</li> </ul> collections and stories <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Expedition+to+Earth+Eleven+Science-Fiction&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Expedition to Earth: Eleven Science-Fiction Stories</a> (New York: Ballantine Books, 1953) [coll: hb/Richard <a href="/entry/powers_richard_m">Powers</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Reach+for+Tomorrow&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Reach for Tomorrow</a> (New York: Ballantine Books, 1956) [coll: hb/Richard <a href="/entry/powers_richard_m">Powers</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tales+from+the+White+Hart&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tales from the White Hart</a> (New York: Ballantine Books, 1957) [coll of linked stories: pb/Richard <a href="/entry/powers_richard_m">Powers</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tales+from+the+White+Hart&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tales from the White Hart</a> (Harrogate, Yorkshire: PS Publishing, 2007) [rev of the above: adds one story co-written with Stephen <a href="/entry/baxter_stephen">Baxter</a>: hb/J K <a href="/entry/potter_j_k">Potter</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Other+Side+of+the+Sky&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Other Side of the Sky</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1958) [coll: hb/Edward Sorel]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Across+the+Sea+of+Stars&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Across the Sea of Stars</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1959) [coll: hb/Arthur Hawkins]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Fall+of+Moondust&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Fall of Moondust</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961) [coll: hb/Arthur Hawkins] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=An+Arthur+C+Clarke+Second+Omnibus+A+Fall+of&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">An Arthur C. Clarke Second Omnibus: A Fall of Moondust, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars</a> (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1968) [omni of the above plus Earthlight and The Sands of Mars: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Clarke+Universe&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Clarke's Universe</a> (New York: ibooks, 2006) [omni of the above plus Lion of Comarre: pb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tales+of+Ten+Worlds&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tales of Ten Worlds</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962) [coll: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Nine+Billion+Names+of+God+The+Best+Short&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C Clarke</a> (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1967) [coll: hb/Robin Sherwood]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Of+Time+and+Stars+The+Worlds+of+Arthur+C+Clarke&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Of Time and Stars: The Worlds of Arthur C Clarke</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1972) [coll: stories for children from previous collections: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Wind+from+the+Sun+Stories+of+the+Space+Age&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Wind from the Sun: Stories of the Space Age</a> (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972) [hb/Carl Smith] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Wind+from+the+Sun+Stories+of+the+Space+Age&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Wind from the Sun: Stories of the Space Age</a> (New York: New American Library/Signet Books, 1987) [rev of the above: three stories added: pb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Best+of+Arthur+C+Clarke+1937-1971&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1971</a> (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1973) [coll: edited by Angus <a href="/entry/wells_angus">Wells</a> anonymously: hb/Chris <a href="/entry/foss_chris">Foss</a>] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Best+of+Arthur+C+Clarke+1932-1955&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1932-1955</a> (London: Sphere Books, 1976) [coll: vt of the above: first half of the above: "1932" should read "1937": pb/Chris <a href="/entry/foss_chris">Foss</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Best+of+Arthur+C+Clarke+1956-1971&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1956-1971</a> (London: Sphere Books, 1977) [coll: vt of the above: second half of the above: pb/Chris <a href="/entry/foss_chris">Foss</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Sentinel&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Sentinel</a> (New York: Berkley Books, 1983) [coll: pb/Lebbeus Woods]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=A+Meeting+with+Medusa&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">A Meeting with Medusa</a> (New York: Tor, 1988) [story: dos: first appeared December 1971 <a href="/entry/playboy">Playboy</a>: pb/Vincent <a href="/entry/di_fate_vincent">Di Fate</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tales+From+Planet+Earth&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tales From Planet Earth</a> (London: Century/Legend, 1990) [coll: edited anonymously by Martin H <a href="/entry/greenberg_martin_h">Greenberg</a>: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Tales+From+Planet+Earth&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Tales From Planet Earth</a> (New York: Bantam Spectra, 1990) [rev: three stories cut, one added: hb/Michael <a href="/entry/whelan_michael">Whelan</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=More+than+One+Universe+The+Collected+Stories+of&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">More than One Universe: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke</a> (New York: Bantam Spectra, 1991) [coll: hb/Paul Swendsen]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Childhood+Ends+The+Earliest+Writings+of+Arthur+C&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Childhood Ends: The Earliest Writings of Arthur C Clarke</a> (Rochester, Michigan: Portentous Press, 1996) [coll: chap: edited by David Aronovitch: hb/Diane Carr]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Fate+of+Fu+Manchu&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Fate of Fu Manchu</a> (Rochester, Michigan: Portentous Press, 1998) [story: chap: first appeared Spring 1935 The Huish Magazine: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Collected+Stories+of+Arthur+C+Clarke&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000) [coll: hb/blacksheep]</li> </ul> nonfiction (selected) <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Interplanetary+Flight&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Interplanetary Flight</a> (London: Temple Press, 1950) [nonfiction: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Interplanetary+Flight&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Interplanetary Flight</a> (London: Temple Press, 1960) [nonfiction: rev of the above: hb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Exploration+of+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Exploration of Space</a> (London: Temple Press, 1951) [nonfiction: hb/Leslie Carr] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Exploration+of+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Exploration of Space</a> (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959) [nonfiction: rev of the above: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Exploration+of+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Exploration of Space</a> (New York: Pocket Books, 1979) [nonfiction: rev of the above: pb/]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Exploration+of+the+Moon&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Exploration of the Moon</a> (London: Temple Press, 1954) [nonfiction: illus/hb/R A Smith]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Young+Traveller+in+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Young Traveller in Space</a> (London: Phoenix House, 1954) [nonfiction: illus/: hb/Edmund Louis Blandford] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Going+into+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Going into Space</a> (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954) [nonfiction: vt of the above: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Scottie+Book+of+Space+Travel&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Scottie Book of Space Travel</a> (London: Transworld/Scottie, 1957) [nonfiction: vt of the above: pb/Richards]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Into+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Into Space</a> (New York: Harper and Row, 1971) with Robert <a href="/entry/silverberg_robert">Silverberg</a> [nonfiction: rev vt of the above: new text by Silverberg: hb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Voice+Across+the+Sea&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Voice Across the Sea</a> (London: Frederick Muller, 1958) [nonfiction: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Voice+Across+the+Sea+1858-1958&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Voice Across the Sea: 1858-1958</a> (London: William Luscombe, 1974) [nonfiction: rev: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=How+the+World+Was+One+Beyond+the+Global+Village&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1992) [nonfiction: much rev vt of the above: hb/Steven Hunt] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=How+the+World+Was+One+The+Turbulent+History+of&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">How the World Was One: The Turbulent History of Global Communications</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1993) [vt of the above: pb/]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Challenge+of+the+Spaceship+Previews+of&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Challenge of the Spaceship: Previews of Tomorrow's World</a> (London: Frederick Muller, 1959) [nonfiction: hb/uncredited] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Challenge+of+the+Spaceship&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Challenge of the Spaceship</a> (New York: Ballantine Books, 1961) [nonfiction: rev vt of the above: pb/Richard <a href="/entry/powers_richard_m">Powers</a>]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Challenge+of+the+Sea&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Challenge of the Sea</a> (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960) [nonfiction: introduction by Wernher <a href="/entry/von_braun_wernher">von Braun</a>: illus/hb/Alex <a href="/entry/schomburg_alex">Schomburg</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Profiles+of+the+Future+An+Inquiry+into+the&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible</a> (New York: Harper and Row, 1962) [nonfiction: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Profiles+of+the+Future+An+Inquiry+into+the&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible</a> (New York: Harper and Row, 1973) [nonfiction: rev of the above: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Profiles+of+the+Future+An+Inquiry+into+the&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible</a> (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984) [rev of the above: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Profiles+of+the+Future+An+Inquiry+into+the&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000) [rev of the above: hb/blacksheep]</li> </ul></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Voices+From+the+Sky&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Voices From the Sky</a> (New York: Harper and Row, 1968) [nonfiction: coll: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Report+on+Planet+3+and+other+Speculations&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Report on Planet 3 and other Speculations</a> (New York: Harper and Row, 1972) [nonfiction: coll: hb/Bob Korn]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Lost+Worlds+of+2001&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Lost Worlds of 2001</a> (New York: New American Library/Signet Books, 1972) [nonfiction/fiction: coll: tie to <a href="/entry/2001_a_space_odyssey">2001: A Space Odyssey</a>: 2001: A Space Odyssey: pb/Bruce <a href="/entry/pennington_bruce">Pennington</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Promise+of+Space&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Promise of Space</a> (New York: Harper and Row, 1968) [nonfiction: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+View+from+Serendip&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The View from Serendip</a> (New York: Random House, 1977) [nonfiction: coll: hb/Terry Steadham and Robert Gretczko]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Mysterious+World&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Mysterious World</a> (New York: A and W Publishers, 1980) by Simon Welfare and John Farley [nonfiction: Clarke contributions include introductory matter and an "Arthur C Clarke Comments" section added to each chapter: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke+Mysterious+World&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World</a> (London: Collins, 1980) [nonfiction: vt of the above: hb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=1984+Spring+A+Choice+of+Futures&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">1984: Spring: A Choice of Futures</a> (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1984) [nonfiction: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Ascent+to+Orbit+A+Scientific+Autobiography+The&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Ascent to Orbit: A Scientific Autobiography: The Technical Writings of Arthur C. Clarke</a> (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1984) [nonfiction: coll: hb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Odyssey+File&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Odyssey File</a> (New York: Ballantine Books/Del Rey, 1985) with Peter <a href="/entry/hyams_peter">Hyams</a> [nonfiction: anth: electronic correspondence edited by Steven Jongeward: pb/photographic]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke+July+20+2019+A+Day+in+the&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019: A Day in the Life of the 21st Century</a> (New York: Macmillan, 1986) [nonfiction: anth: Clarke's contribution is minimal: hb/Mike Werner and Carol Werner]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Astounding+Days+A+Science+Fictional+Autobiography&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1989) [nonfiction: hb/Gavin Harrison]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Fantastic+Muse&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Fantastic Muse</a> (England: Hilltop Press, 1992) [nonfiction/poetry: chap: fanzine material from the 1930s: pb/]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=By+Space+Possessed+Essays+on+the+Exploration+of&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">By Space Possessed: Essays on the Exploration of Space</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1993) [nonfiction: coll: mostly from previous collections: hb/Peter Mennim]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Snows+of+Olympus+A+Garden+on+Mars&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1994) [nonfiction: advocating the <a href="/entry/terraforming">Terraforming</a> of <a href="/entry/mars">Mars</a>: hb/David A <a href="/entry/hardy_david_a">Hardy</a>]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke+and+Lord+Dunsany+A+Correspondence&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence</a> (San Francisco, California: Anamnesis Press, 1998) with Lord <a href="/entry/dunsany_lord">Dunsany</a> [nonfiction/letters: anth: edited by Keith Allen <a href="/entry/daniels_keith_allen">Daniels</a>: pb/Toni Luna Montealegre]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Greetings+Carbon-Based+Bipeds+Collected&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998</a> (New York: St Martin's Press, 1999) [nonfiction: coll: edited by Ian T Macauley: hb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Greetings+Carbon-Based+Bipeds+A+Vision+of+the&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century as it Happened</a> (London: Voyager, 1999) [nonfiction: coll: vt of the above: hb/uncredited]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=From+Narnia+to+A+Space+Odyssey+The+War+of+Ideas&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">From Narnia to A Space Odyssey: The War of Ideas Between Arthur C Clarke and C S Lewis</a> (New York: ibooks, 2003) with C S <a href="/entry/lewis_c_s">Lewis</a> [nonfiction/fiction: anth: hb/Jim <a href="/entry/burns_jim">Burns</a>]</li> </ul> works as editor (selected) <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Time+Probe+The+Sciences+in+Science+Fiction&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Time Probe: The Sciences in Science Fiction</a> (New York: Delacorte Press, 1966) [anth: actually edited by Robert <a href="/entry/silverberg_robert">Silverberg</a>: hb/Barbara Luttringhaus]</li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Science+Fiction+Hall+of+Fame+Vol+4&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol 4</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1981) with Geo W <a href="/entry/proctor_geo_w">Proctor</a> [anth: edited by Geo W <a href="/entry/proctor_geo_w">Proctor</a>: pb/] <ul class="x"> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Science+Fiction+Hall+of+Fame+Vol+III+Nebula&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol III: Nebula Winners 1965-69</a> (New York: Avon Books, 1982) with Geo W <a href="/entry/proctor_geo_w">Proctor</a> [anth: vt of the above: edited by Geo W <a href="/entry/proctor_geo_w">Proctor</a>: pb/]</li> </ul></li> <li><a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Project+Solar+Sail&field-author=Clarke+Arthur+C" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Project Solar Sail</a> (New York: Penguin/Roc, 1990) "with" David <a href="/entry/brin_david">Brin</a> [nonfiction: anth: pb/]</li> </ul> about the author <ul class="x"> <li>Sam <a href="/entry/moskowitz_sam">Moskowitz</a>. "Arthur C. Clarke" in <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Seekers+of+Tomorrow+Masters+of+Modern+Science&field-author=Moskowitz+Sam" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Seekers of Tomorrow: Masters of Modern Science Fiction</a> (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing Co, 1966) [nonfiction: coll: hb/]</li> <li>Joseph D <a href="/entry/olander_joseph_d">Olander</a> and Martin Harry <a href="/entry/greenberg_martin_h">Greenberg</a>, editors. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke&field-author=Olander+Joseph+D" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke</a> (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co, 1977) [nonfiction: anth: Writers of the Twenty-First Century: hb/Rus Anderson]</li> <li>George <a href="/entry/slusser_george_edgar">Slusser</a>. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Space+Odysseys+of+Arthur+C+Clarke&field-author=Slusser+George+Edgar" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Space Odysseys of Arthur C Clarke</a> (San Bernardino, California: Borgo Press, 1978) [nonfiction: hb/]</li> <li>Eric S <a href="/entry/rabkin_eric_s">Rabkin</a>. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke+Starmont+Readers+Guide+No+1&field-author=Rabkin+Eric+S" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke: Starmont Readers' Guide No 1</a> (West Linn, Oregon: Starmont House, 1979) [nonfiction: chap: pb/Stephen E <a href="/entry/fabian_stephen_e">Fabian</a>]</li> <li>John Hollow. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Against+the+Night+the+Stars+The+Science+Fiction&field-author=John+Hollow" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Against the Night, the Stars: The Science Fiction of Arthur C Clarke</a> (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983) [nonfiction: hb/]</li> <li>David N <a href="/entry/samuelson_david_n">Samuelson</a>. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke+A+Primary+and+Secondary&field-author=Samuelson+David+N" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography</a> (London: Macmillan, 1984) [bibliography: Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy: hb/]</li> <li>Neil McAleer. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Odyssey+of+Arthur+C+Clarke+An+Authorized&field-author=Neil+McAleer" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Odyssey of Arthur C. Clarke: An Authorized Biography</a> (London: Victor Gollancz, 1992) [nonfiction: hb/photographic] <ul class="x"> <li>Neil McAleer. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Sir+Arthur+C+Clarke+Odyssey+of+a+Visionary&field-author=Neil+McAleer" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Sir Arthur C. Clarke: Odyssey of a Visionary</a> (New York: RosettaBooks, 2013) [nonfiction: ebook: exp rev vt of the above: na/Terrence Tymon]</li> </ul></li> <li>Robin Anne Reid. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke+A+Critical+Companion&field-author=Robin+Anne+Reid" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C Clarke: A Critical Companion</a> (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997) [nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]</li> <li>Karoly Pinter. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=The+Anatomy+of+Utopia+Narration+Estrangements&field-author=Karoly+Pinter" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">The Anatomy of Utopia: Narration, Estrangements and Ambiguity in More, Wells, Huxley & Clarke</a> (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2010) [nonfiction: hb/Digital Illustration]</li> <li>Gregory <a href="/entry/benford_gregory">Benford</a> and George <a href="/entry/zebrowski_george">Zebrowski</a>, editors. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Sentinels+in+Honor+of+Arthur+C+Clarke&field-author=Benford+Gregory" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Sentinels in Honor of Arthur C Clarke</a> (Overland Park, Kansas: Hadley Rille Books, 2010) [nonfiction: anth: hb/]</li> <li>Fred Clarke with Robert Godwin, Kelvin F Long and Mark Stewart. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke+A+Life+Remembered&field-author=Fred+Clarke+with+Robert+Godwin,+Kelvin+F+Long+and+Mark+Stewart" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C Clarke: A Life Remembered</a> (Burlington, Ontario: Apogee Prime/London: British Interplanetary Society, 2013) [nonfiction: hb/]</li> <li>Gary <a href="/entry/westfahl_gary">Westfahl</a>. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Arthur+C+Clarke&field-author=Westfahl+Gary" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Arthur C. Clarke</a> (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2018) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Modern Masters of Science Fiction series: hb/Julian Faylona]</li> <li>Andrew M <a href="/entry/butler_andrew_m">Butler</a> and Paul March-Russell, editors. <a href="/sfeshop.php?field-keywords=Rendezvous+with+Arthur+C+Clarke+Centenary+Essays&field-author=Butler+Andrew+M" class="link-amazon" target="_blank">Rendezvous with Arthur C Clarke: Centenary Essays</a> (Canterbury, Kent: Gylphi, 2023) [nonfiction: anth: hb/photographic]</li> </ul> links <ul class="x"> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.clarkefoundation.org/">The Arthur C Clarke Foundation</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p083594">Arthur C Clarke bibliography</a> by Gary <a href="/entry/westfahl_gary">Westfahl</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?17">Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/gallery.php?link=clarke_arthur_c">Picture Gallery</a></li> </ul> previous versions of this entry <ul><li><a href='https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/clarke_arthur_c' target='_blank'>Internet Archive</a></li></ul> </article></div> <div class="sideBarsWrapper"> <div class="sideBarsColsWrapper clearfix"> <div class="column sideBar12 clearfix"> <div class="columnForm"><aside id="blogFeed" class="widget"> <div class="content STeditorial clearfix"> <h2>Recently visited entries</h2><ul style='width: 50%; 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