Arthur C. Clarke

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  • Bibliography:
    63 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1940
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Space Odyssey

1 - 2001: A Space Odyssey ()
2 - 2010: Odyssey Two (Dec-1982)
3 - 2061: Odyssey Three (Nov-1987)
4 - 3001: The Final Odyssey (Mar-1997)

Multi-Author Series List

Rama

1 - Rendezvous with Rama (Aug-1973)

Book List in Order: 63 titles

  • Tales from the White Hart

    A compendium of science fiction stories filled with “high diversion, amusement and amazement” from the legendary creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Los Angeles Times).   In the White Hart Pub in London just north of Fleet Street, Harry Purvis...

  • Hide and Seek

    in There Will Be War, Vol. III: Blood and Iron
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    From the fearless fighting men of inter-galactic space to the Spartan few who held the pass at Thermopylae. From the hardy starship troopers of futuristic mercenary frays to those last Roman centurions, holding back the barbaric hordes. From those ce...

  • The Sands of Mars

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    Predating the earliest manned space mission: the first full-length science fiction novel from the acclaimed author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.   First published in 1951, before the achievement of space flight, Arthur C. Clarke created this vi...

  • Superiority

    in There Will Be War, Vol. II: Men of War
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    HIGH TECH WAR -- AND HOW TO AVOID IT The answer is simple: you would have peace? Then prepare for war. This wisdom is as old as armies. Yet after a few generations, the peace that was paid for with soldiers' blood comes to seem the normal thing, t...

  • Islands in the Sky

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    The technologically groundbreaking novel of space exploration from the only science fiction author nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.   Roy Malcolm has always been fascinated by space travel. And when he wins a voyage to the Inner Space Station ...

  • The City and the Stars

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    WORLD-SHATTERING TRUTHS On a world decimated by apocalypse, two isolated city--nations stand alone. Long millennia ago, their leaders determined that the only way to avoid absolute destruction would be to cut off all communication between them. Bu...

  • Childhood's End

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    THE LAST GENERATION OF MANKIND ON EARTH Without warning, giant silver ships from deep space appear in the skies above every major city on Earth. They are manned by the Overlords...mysterious creatures from an alien race who soon take over contr...

  • Reach for Tomorrow

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    REACH FOR TOMORROW presents a second collection of Arthur C. Clarke's stories--the first was the highly successful EXPEDITION TO EARTH. From "Rescue Party" (his first published story and still one of his most famous) to "Jupiter Five," the amazing ra...

  • The Deep Range

    A man discovers the planet’s destiny in the ocean’s depths in this near-future novel by one of the twentieth century’s greatest science fiction authors.   In the very near future, humanity has fully harnessed the sea’s immense potential,...



  • The Other Side of the Sky

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  • A Fall of Moondust

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    Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the pitiless and unpredictable conditions of a tot...

  • Tales of Ten Worlds

    Paperback, stated 11th printing 1987. Collection of stories first published in hardcover in 1962. STORIES: I Remember Babylon (1960); Summertime on Icarus (1960); Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting . . . (1959); Who's There? (1958); Hate (1961); I...

  • Glide Path

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    A gripping novel of human ingenuity during World War II, based on the visionary author’s own wartime experiences as a radar control operator.   One of the most influential science fiction writers of the twentieth century, Arthur C. Clarke...

  • Nine Billion Names of God

    The best science fiction stories of Arthur C. Clarke, including: The Nine Billion Names of God (voted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame by Science Fiction Writers of America), I Remember Babylon, Trouble With Time, Rescue Party, The Curse, Summer...

  • Expedition to Earth

    Short stories from the science fiction master -- including the tale that inspired 2001: A Space Odyssey.   These stories present a brilliant showcase of Arthur C. Clarke’s many-layered approach to the moral dilemmas of scientific advancem...

  • Prelude to Space

    An uncannily prophetic novel of early space exploration from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey (The New Yorker).   The world’s first lunar spacecraft is about to launch. The ship, Prometheus, ...

  • The Lost World of 2001

  • The Wind from the Sun

  • Earthlight

    THE TIE THAT BINDS The human race had been born on a unique world...a world loaded with mineral wealth, unmatched elsewhere in the solar system. This accident of fate gave a flying start to man's technology -- but it made man dependent on his home w...



  • Report on Planet Three

    In addition to being one of Science Fiction's greatest writers, Sir Arthur C. Clarke was also one of our foremost thinkers and visionaries, producing a number of highly readable and important non-fiction works. Report of Planet Three is a collection ...

  • Rendezvous with Rama

    Rama - 1

    THE RAMANS ARE HERE... At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge. It weighs more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space ...

  • Imperial Earth

    2276 WelcomeTo Earth For America's Quincentennial! The Time of Troubles is over. War and Poverty are dead. And Duncan Makenzie, benign ruler of the distant world of Titan has returned to the planet of his forefathers to solve a mystery and ...

  • Against the Fall of Night

    The renowned science fiction author’s landmark novel of the last human born on a far future world -- and his quest for the truth about existence.   Living in the ten-billion-year-old city of Diaspar, Alvin is the last child born of humanity, a...

  • The Fountains of Paradise

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    Renowned structural engineer Dr. Vannevar Morgan seeks to link Earth to the stars-through the construction of a space elevator connecting to an orbiting satellite 22,300 miles from the planet's surface. The elevator would lift interstellar spaceships...

  • 2010: Odyssey Two

    Space Odyssey - 2

    When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on ...

  • Dolphin Island

    A science fiction adventure for readers of all ages, from a winner of multiple Nebula and Hugo Awards.   In the near future, a cargo hovership makes an emergency landing in a rural part of the Midwest. An adventurous teenager, Johnny Clinton sne...

  • A Choice of Futures

  • The Odyssey File

    Arthur C Clarke sits at his Kapro II computer in far-off Sri Lanka transmitting files to Peter Hyams who responds in kind from his office in Los Angeles. Thus a fascinating computer correspondence develops. Now in The Odyssey File we get a unique opp...

  • The Songs of Distant Earth

    PARADISE LOST Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise--home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth. Mesmerized by the...



  • The Sentinel

    EDITORIAL REVIEW: The best collection ever of Arthur C. Clarke's short fiction, including the stories on which 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End were based. The Sentinel is a magnificent retrospective showcase of Arthur C. Clarke's finest s...

  • Fountains of Paradis

    The lives of Van Morgan, an adventurous engineer of the twenty-second century, and Kalidasa, an obsessive tyrant of the second century, are brought together in the drama that takes place on an alluring island in the Indian Ocean...

  • 2061: Odyssey Three

    Space Odyssey - 3

    This New York Times"bestselling chapter in the Hugo Award"winning Space Odyssey series is “intriguing and satisfying . . . the all-round best Odyssey so far” (Kirkus Reviews).   The third book in Clarke’s beloved Space O...

  • A Meeting With Medusa

  • Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography

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  • Project Solar Sail

    SAILING TO DISTANT STARS is a dream that began with the publication of Arthur C. Clarke s classic short story "Sunjammer," in which he introduced the concept of space vehicles powered by sunlight. Scientists were so fired by the idea that their re...

  • Tales from Planet Earth

    If you want an omnibus of short fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master, then you want The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. If you're looking for a representative sample of Clarke's short stories, or for s...

  • Beyond Fall of Night

  • Ghost from the Grand Banks

    In this near-future sci-fi novel by the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, two companies competing to raise the Titanic find mystery among the wreckage.   Two years before the centennial anniversary of the Titanic’s demise, two powerful corporat...

  • More Than One Universe

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  • How the World Was One

    A master of the science fiction genre chronicles the history of telecommunications, discussing submarine cables, and the development of fiber optics and communications satellites, and projects a future of neutrino, gravitational, and tachyon communic...

  • The Hammer of God

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    From one of the bestselling science fiction authors of all time comes this heart-stopping far future novel of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.   A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued...

  • Dinosaurios

  • Regreso a Titan

  • 3001: The Final Odyssey

    Space Odyssey - 4

    One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. B...

  • The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

    Six decades of fascinating stories from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey gathered in one compendium (The New Yorker).   Arthur C. Clarke, along with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Rob...

  • Coast of Coral

  • The War of the Worlds

    Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke
    Commentary by Jules Verne and an anonymous reviewer from The Critic

    “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intellige...

  • The Reefs of Taprobane

  • Postscripts



  • The Dark Blue Depths

  • Clarke's Universe

    In A Fall of Moondust, time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist-cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the pitiless and unpredicta...

  • Rendevous With Rama

    In the year 2130, a huge alien artifact approaches the Earth from outer space. Commander Norton and his crew take their ship to meet it, and, once inside, discover the wonders that go to make up Rama....

  • Death and the Senator

    Martin Steelman is a senior United States Senator. From the get go, he has been aiming for power and the Presidency. In pursuit of his goal he has sacrificed friendship, family, marriage, and more. Now he is faced with a terminal medical condition--a...

  • Richter 10

    Political and environmental disasters come crashing down in this earthquake sci-fi thriller co-written by the authors of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Memories.   When he was seven years old, Lewis Crane survived the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 -...

  • Arthur C. Clarke's Early Short Stories

    Arthur C. Clark wrote and published many of his first short stories in Astounding Science Fiction, Star Science Fiction Stories, and Infinity Science Fiction during the mid-1950’s. This book is a little collection of these early works. It includes:...

  • Astounding Days

  • By Space Possessed

  • Profiles Of The Future

  • The Snows of Olympus

  • Voices from the Sky

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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    Space Odyssey - 1

    The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film -- and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves.From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as...

  • Exploration of Space

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The View from Serendip

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Award-Winning Books by Arthur C. Clarke

The Fountains of Paradise
1980 Hugo Award -- Novel
1980 Nebula Award -- Novel
Rendezvous with Rama
1973 Nebula Award -- Novel
1974 Hugo Award -- Novel
1974 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel
1974 Locus Award -- Science Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Arthur C. Clarke has published 63 books.

Arthur C. Clarke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Snows of Olympus, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Arthur C. Clarke, Tales from the White Hart, was published in June 1940.

Yes. Arthur C. Clarke has 1 series.
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