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Author rating: 1
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Novels/Collections : reviews


[cover]

Arthur C. Clarke. Childhood's End. Pan. 1954

Review:
expanded from "Guardian Angel"

Super-powerful aliens come to Earth, and take over. What are their ultimate intentions, and why won't they let us even see them?

Rating: 1
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Arthur C. Clarke. Expedition to Earth. Sphere. 1954

Contents (possible spoilers)

'If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth...'
Breaking Strain
filmed as Trapped in Space, 1994
Expedition to Earth
Superiority
Nemesis
Encounter in the Dawn
Loophole
Inheritance
Hide and Seek. 1949
Second Dawn. 1951
The Sentinel. 1954

[cover]

Arthur C. Clarke. The City and the Stars. Corgi. 1956

Review:
revised and expanded "Against the Fall of Night"

Rating: 1
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Arthur C. Clarke, Gregory Benford. Beyond the Fall of Night. ACE. 1990

Review:
expansion of "Against the Fall of Night"


Arthur C. Clarke. Reach for Tomorrow. Corgi. 1956

Contents (possible spoilers)

The Forgotten Enemy. 1949
The Curse. 1953
A Walk In The Dark. 1950
Trouble With the Natives. 1951
Technical Error. 1950. = The Reversed Man
Jupiter Five. 1953
The Possessed. 1952
The Fires Within. 1949
Time's Arrow. 1952
Parasite. 1953
Rescue Party. 1946
The Awakening. 1942

Arthur C. Clarke. Tales from the White Hart. Sidgick & Jackson. 1957

Contents (possible spoilers)

The Next Tenants. 1956
Sleeping Beauty. 1957
Critical Mass. 1957
Armaments Race. 1954
Patents Pending. 1954
The Ultimate Melody. 1956
Cold War
Moving Spirit
What Goes Up. 1955
The Pacifist. 1956
Big Game Hunt. 1954
The Man Who Ploughed the Sea
The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch
The Reluctant Orchid. 1956
Silence Please. 1954

[cover]

Arthur C. Clarke. A Fall of Moondust. Pan. 1961

Review:
A tourist bus on the Moon gets sucked into a chasm filled with fine dust. The race is on to save the trapped passengers.

Rating: 1.5
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Arthur C. Clarke. The Other Side of the Sky. Corgi. 1961

Contents (possible spoilers)

The Other Side of the Sky. 1957
Special Delivery
Feathered Friend
Take a Deep Breath
Freedom of Space
Passer-by
The Call of the Stars
The Wall of Darkness. 1949
Security Check. 1957
No Morning After. 1954
The Starting Line
Robin Hood, F.R.S.
Green Fingers
All That Glitters
Watch This Space
A Question of Residence
Publicity Campaign. 1956
All the Time in the World. 1952
Cosmic Casanova
Out of the Sun. 1954
Transcience
The Songs of Distant Earth
Venture to the Moon. 1956
Refugee. 1955. = ?
The Star. 1955
The Nine Billion Names of God. 1953

Arthur C. Clarke. Tales of Ten Worlds. Corgi. 1962

Contents (possible spoilers)

Saturn Rising. 1961
I Remember Babylon. 1960
Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting.... 1959. = Out of the Cradle
Who's There?. 1958. = The Haunted Spacesuit
An Ape About the House. 1962
Let There Be Light. 1957
Trouble With Time. 1960. = Crime on Mars
A Slight Case of Sunstroke. 1958. = The Stroke of the Sun
Dog Star. 1962. = Moondog
Road to the Sea. 1950. = Seeker of the Sphinx
Summertime on Icarus. 1960. = The Hottest Piece of Real Estate in the Solar System
Into the Comet. 1960. = Inside the Comet
Hate. 1961. = At the End of the Orbit
Death and the Senator. 1961
Before Eden. 1961

Arthur C. Clarke. The Wind from the Sun. Corgi. 1962

Contents (possible spoilers)

The Food of the Gods. 1961
Maelstrom II. 1962
The Shining Ones. 1962
The Wind From the Sun. 1963
The Secret. 1963
The Last Command. 1963
Dial F for Frankenstein. 1963
Reunion. 1963
Playback. 1963
The Light of Darkness. 1964
The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Told. 1966. = A Recursion in Metastories
Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq.. 1967
Love That Universe. 1966
Crusade. 1966
The Cruel Sky. 1966
Neutron Tide. 1970
Transit of Earth. 1970
A Meeting With Medusa. 1972

[cover]

Arthur C. Clarke. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Arrow. 1968

Review:
Named for the start of the third millennium, this is not simply the "book of the film": it was developed in parallel with Kubrick's masterpiece. And it's a little less cryptic in its ending.

Rating: 1
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[cover]

Arthur C. Clarke. 3001: The Final Odyssey. Voyager/HarperColins. 1997



Arthur C. Clarke. The Lion of Commare & Against the Fall of Night. Corgi. 1968

Contents (possible spoilers)

Against the Fall of Night. 1948
revised and expanded as The City and the Stars
The Lion of Comarre. 1949

Arthur C. Clarke. The Best of Arthur C Clarke, 1937-1971. Sphere. 1973

Contents (possible spoilers)

Summertime on Icarus. 1960. = The Hottest Piece of Real Estate in the Solar System
Hide and Seek. 1949
History Lesson. 1949
Castaway. 1947
Whacky. 1942
Retreat from Earth. 1938
Travel by Wire. 1937
Into the Comet. 1960. = Inside the Comet
Second Dawn. 1951
Venture to the Moon. 1956
The Sentinel. 1954
Refugee. 1955. = ?
The Star. 1955
Hate. 1961. = At the End of the Orbit
Death and the Senator. 1961
Sunjammer. 1965
(bibliography)
A Meeting With Medusa. 1972
The Awakening. 1942

[cover]

Arthur C. Clarke, Michael Kube-McDowell. The Trigger. Bantam. 1999



[cover]

Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter. The Light of Other Days. Tor. 2000



Edited anthologies : reviews


Arthur C. Clarke, editor. Three for Tomorrow. Sphere. 1969

Contents (possible spoilers)

James Blish. We All Die Naked. 1969
Robert Silverberg. How It Was When the Past Went Away. 1969
Roger Zelazny. The Eve of RUMOKO. 1969

Arthur C. Clarke, editor. Project Solar Sail. Roc/Penguin. 1990

Contents (possible spoilers)

Poul Anderson. Sunjammer. 1964
Arthur C. Clarke. The Wind From the Sun. 1963
Arthur C. Clarke. The Winds of Space (forward to Project Solar Sail). 1990
Isaac Asimov. Sailing the Void (introduction to Project Solar Sail). 1990
Ray Bradbury, Jonathan V. Post. To Sail Beyond the Sun (A Luminous Collage). 1990
K. Eric Drexler. The Canvas of Night. 1990
David Brin. Ice Pilot. 1990
Jonathan Eberhart. A Solar Privateer. 1981
Chauncey Uphoff, Jonathan V. Post. A Rebel Technology Comes Alive
Alfred Lord Tennyson. Argosies of Magic Sails
Brian Palaszewski. Ion Propulsion: The Solar Sail's Competition. 1990
Charles Sheffield. The Grand Tour. 1987
Scott E. Green. Lightsail. 1990
Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason. Rescue at L-5. 1990
Robert L. Forward, Joel Davis. Lightsails to the Stars. 1990
Joe Clifford Faust. Goodnight, Children. 1990
Robert L. Staehle, Louis Friedman. Solar Sails in an Interplanetary Economy. 1990
Arthur C. Clarke. Afterword to "Project Solar Sail". 1990
Larry Niven. The Fourth Profession. 1971