Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Arthur C. Clarke dies at age 90

The world of science fiction lovers mourns today, remembering this great wise man who wrote so much and fired the imaginations of countless kids.



Partial bibliography (From Wikipedia)

[edit] Novels

* Prelude to Space (1951)
* The Sands of Mars (1951)
* Islands in the Sky (1952)
* Against the Fall of Night (1953)
* Childhood's End (1953)
* Earthlight (1955)
* The City and the Stars (1956)
* The Deep Range (1957)
* A Fall of Moondust (1961)
* Dolphin Island (1963)
* Glide Path (1963)
* 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
* Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
* Imperial Earth (1975)
* The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
* 2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
* The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
* 2061: Odyssey Three (1988)
* A Meeting with Medusa (1988)
* Cradle (1988) (with Gentry Lee)
* Rama II (1989) (with Gentry Lee)
* Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Gregory Benford)
* The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990)
* The Garden of Rama (1991) (with Gentry Lee)
* Rama Revealed (1993) (with Gentry Lee)
* The Hammer of God (1993)
* Richter 10 (1996) (with Mike McQuay)
* 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
* The Trigger (1999) (with Michael P. Kube-McDowell)
* The Light of Other Days (2000) (with Stephen Baxter)
* Time's Eye (2003) (with Stephen Baxter)
* Sunstorm (2005) (with Stephen Baxter)
* Firstborn (2007) (with Stephen Baxter)

[edit] Omnibus editions

* Across the Sea of Stars (1959) (including Childhood's End, Earthlight and 18 short stories)
* From the Ocean, From the Stars (1962) (including The City and the Stars, The Deep Range and The Other Side of the Sky)
* An Arthur C. Clarke Omnibus (1965) (including Childhood's End, Prelude to Space and Expedition to Earth)
* Prelude to Mars (1965) (including Prelude to Space and The Sands of Mars)
* The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night (1968)
* An Arthur C. Clarke Second Omnibus (1968) (including A Fall of Moondust, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars)
* Four Great SF Novels (1978) (including The City and the Stars, The Deep Range, A Fall of Moondust, Rendezvous with Rama)
* The Space Trilogy (2001) (including Islands in the Sky, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars)

Against the Fall of Night in Startling Stories.
Against the Fall of Night in Startling Stories.

[edit] Short story collections

* Expedition to Earth (1953)
* Reach for Tomorrow (1956)
* Tales from the White Hart (1957)
* The Other Side of the Sky (1958)
* Tales of Ten Worlds (1962)
* The Nine Billion Names of God (1967)
* Of Time and Stars (1972)
* The Wind from the Sun (1972)
* The Best of Arthur C. Clarke (1973)
* The Sentinel (1983)
* Tales From Planet Earth (1990)
* More Than One Universe (1991)
* The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2000)

[edit] Non-fiction

* Interplanetary Flight; an introduction to astronautics. London: Temple Press, 1950
* The Exploration of Space. New York: Harper, 1951
* The Coast of Coral. New York: Harper, 1957 — Volume 1 of the Blue planet trilogy
* The Reefs of Taprobane; Underwater Adventures around Ceylon. New York: Harper, 1957 — Volume 2 of the Blue planet trilogy
* The Making of a Moon: the Story of the Earth Satellite Program. New York: Harper, 1957
* Boy beneath the sea, Photos by Mike Wilson. Text by Arthur C. Clarke. New York: Harper, 1958
* The Challenge of the Space Ship: Previews of Tomorrow’s World. New York: Harper, 1959
* The Challenge of the Sea. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960
* Profiles of the Future; an Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible. New York: Harper & Row, 1962
* The Treasure of the Great Reef. New York: Harper & Row, 1964 — Volume 3 of the Blue planet trilogy
* Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age. New York: Harper & Row, 1965
* The Promise of Space. New York: Harper, 1968
* Into Space: a Young Person’s Guide to Space, by Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Silverberg. New York: Harper & Row, 1971
* Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations. New York: Harper & Row, 1972
* The Lost Worlds of 2001. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972
* Voice Across the Sea. HarperCollins, 1975
* The View from Serendip. Random House, 1977
* The Odyssey File. Email correspondence with Peter Hyams. London: Panther Books, 1984
* 1984, Spring: a Choice of Futures. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984
* Ascent to Orbit, a Scientific Autobiography: The Technical Writings of Arthur C. Clarke. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984
* Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography. London: Gollancz, 1989
* How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village. New York : Bantam Books, 1992 — A history and survey of the communications revolution
* By Space Possessed. London: Gollancz, 1993
* The Snows of Olympus - A Garden on Mars (1994, picture album with comments)
* An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, 1995, St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-15119-5 (Online Version)
* Fractals: The Colors of Infinity (1997, narrator)
* Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Works 1934-1988. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999
* Profiles of the Future; an Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible (updated edition). New York: Harper & Row, 1999, ISBN 057506790X, ISBN 9780575067905
* From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Letters Between Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis (2003) with C. S. Lewis
* The Coming of the Space Age; famous accounts of man's probing of the universe, selected and edited by Arthur C. Clarke.

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