Arthur Charles Clarke, Author Del Rey $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-31522-9
Frank Poole was the astronaut murdered by the berserk computer HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey. In this third sequel to that classic novel, Poole is returned to life after his frozen body is recovered floating near Neptune. Much of the novel centers on
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author Spectra Books $7.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-553-56871-4
Clarke's SF novel concerns an asteroid on a collision course with 22nd-century earth. (Nov.)
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03911-5
Human beings could visit Mars in the early part of the 21st century if the resources were made available, asserts science-fiction novelist Clarke. Citing a report issued by the International Space University after its annual symposium in Toulouse,...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author Spectra Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07222-8
Setting his novel in the near future, close to the centennial of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic , SF luminary Clarke ( Childhood's End ) spins an initially ingenious scenario that only partially fulfills its potential. Two mammoth corporations...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author Bantam Books $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07440-6
Fully one-half of this personalized history of telecommunications appeared in Clarke's Voices Across the Sea (1958), but few authors bear repeating so well as this renowned writer of science fiction and fact. Clarke's own enthusiasm for the field...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author Spectra Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09557-9
Classic SF author Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) walks on well-trodden ground with this entertaining but forgettable book. In the early 22nd century, an enormous asteroid is discovered to be on a collision course with the Earth. Humanity, however,
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Author, Michael P. Kube-McDowell, Joint Author Spectra Books $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-553-10458-5
One of the grand old men of SF has teamed up with Kube-McDowell (Tyrant's Test, etc.) to imagine a near-future in which all traditional weapons that use gunpowder are rendered obsolete. Out of the blue, young physicist Jeffrey Horton has been chosen
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Lee Clarke, Author, Gentry Lee, With Bantam Books $6.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09536-4
This disappointing conclusion to the Rama series picks up at the point where the previous volume, The Garden of Rama , left its characters in peril. Cosmonaut Nicole Wakefield, the former governor of the human colony housed within the globe-shaped...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Mike McQuay, With Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09708-5
Two formidable SF talents converge splendidly in this disaster thriller, which offers sleek action-adventure writing, world-class tumult and a coherent near-future based on sound yet innovative social and scientific speculation. Thirty years ago, as
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Clark, Author St. Martin's Press $35 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-19893-0
Though best known as the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke has been a scientist and writer of nonfiction for almost two-thirds of a century. This collection is organized chronologically by decade, affording the reader insights into Clarke's...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Gregory Benford, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-399-13499-9
One of Clarke's early novels, Against the Fall of Night , has long been recognized as among his very best; the tale of a young man's need to escape from the limits of the last cities on Earth, it combines the author's scientific know-how with his...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Frederik Pohl, Author . Del Rey $27 (299p) ISBN 978-0-345-47021-8
Grand Masters Pohl (Gateway
) and the late Clarke (1917–2008, best known for 2001
) collaborated on a can't-put-down adventure that focuses on their mutual strengths: high adventure, fun characters and hard science. Sometime in the near...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Gentry Lee, With Bantam Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07261-7
Introduced in Clarke's 1973 Hugo- and Nebula-winning Rendezvous with Rama and most recently seen in Clarke and Lee's Rama II , the massive spacecraft Rama is back, but the luster and sense of wonder generated by its first appearances have eroded....
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Gentry Lee, With Spectra Books $7.99 (624p) ISBN 978-0-553-56947-6
This final volume of the Rama tetralogy chronicles the end of the spaceship's intergalactic odyssey; a five-week PW bestseller. (Feb.)
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Gentry Lee, With Spectra Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05714-0
In 1973, Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama won the Hugo, Nebula and Campbell awards. This new novel is the second in a trilogy about the mystifying world-ships and their flybys of our solar system. Unfortunately, the focus is no longer on alien...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-45250-4
Set in the same universe as Clarke's 2001
and its sequels, Clarke and Baxter's second and final Time Odyssey book (after 2004's Time's Eye
) will especially appeal to fans of hard SF who appreciate well-grounded science and humans...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $25.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-345-49157-2
Though supposedly the last volume of Clarke and Baxter’s Time Odyssey series (after 2005’s Sunstorm
), this intriguing and frustrating installment of the high-octane space opera ends with an astounding cliffhanger just as humans have...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Stephen Baxter, Author . Del Rey $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-45248-1
Clarke, with Baxter (Coalescent
), probably the most talented of the former's several collaborators, have cooked up an exciting tale full of high-tech physics, military tactics and larger-than-life characters in the first of two novels related...
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Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Stephen Baxter, Joint Author Tor Books $24.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-312-87199-4
HTwo titans of hard SF--multiple award-winning British authors Clarke (Rendezvous with Rama, etc.) and Baxter (The Time Ships, etc.)--team up for a story of grand scientific and philosophical scope. Ruthless Hiram Patterson, the self-styled ""Bill...
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Frederick I. Ordway, III, Author, Arthur Charles Clarke, Foreword by, Arthur Charles Clarke, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $50 (176p) ISBN 978-1-56858-181-1
Writer Frederick I. Ordway III worked with Werner von Braun in the early days of NASA; he also spent decades collecting pictures, paintings and diagrams of space voyages, real or imagined. With hundreds of big images in glossy color, Visions of...
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