Arthur Charles Clarke

Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman.

Odyssey Two

2010

A selection of what he considers to be his best short stories is presented by this leading science fiction writer

The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke

The Nine Billion Names of God

Gentry Lee

Rama II

It began four million years ago with a gleaming black monolith - an inexplicable apparition that ignited the spark of human consciousness transforming ape into man.

3001 The Final Odyssey

In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge, but empty - apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next unknown destination many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only one thing was clear: everything the enigmatic builders of Rama did, they did in threes. Eighty years later the second alien craft arrived in the solar system. This time, Earth had been waiting. Now Rama II is on its way out of the solar system. Aboard it are three humans, two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed. Ahead of them lies the unknown, a voyage no human has ever experienced. And at the end of it may lie the truth about Rama. Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

The Garden of Rama

On the moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent deep into our solar system. But before they can reach their destination, things begin to go very wrong.

A Space Odyssey

2001

It is an amateur astronomer on Mars who first spots the previously uncharted asteroid, falling sunwards. And when the scientists of project SPACEGUARD compute its orbit, they christen it Kali -the Hindu goddess of destruction. It is 2109, sixty-five million years since the reign of the giant reptiles was ended. And now Kale threatens a similar fate for mankind. As Captain of the research vessel Goliath, Robert Singh is in charge of an operation that has been long planned but never before put into action -the immense task of pushing an asteroid off its course. But even the most meticulous planning cannot anticipate the human factor. With superb storytelling and authentic science, The Hammer of God is vintage Clark.

The Hammer of God

A collection of short stories by the author of Childhood's End and 2001: A Space Odyssey showcases the author's storytelling skills in such works as "The Sentinel," "Guardian Angel," "The Songs of Distant Earth," and "Breaking Strain." Reprint.

The Sentinel

The arrival of a spaceship from Earth--destroyed when its sun went nova--carrying five million Earthlings in suspended animation, as well as an uncensored cultural record of Earth, threatens to destroy the paradisiacal planet of Thalassa

The Songs of Distant Earth

Classic SF novel of first contact with an alien civilization.

Rendezvous with Rama

Stephen Baxter

A mysterious glowing orb appears over Central Asia, ripping the Earth into conflicting eras of the past, present, and future, mingling UN peacekeepers from the year 2037 with military forces from past eras.

Time's Eye

A woman stumbles upon a mysterious portal that links back to the Firstborn, omnipotent beings responsible for the upheaval of history and the creators of the notorious black monolith of "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Sunstorm

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

Beyond the Global Village

How the World was One

A young boy leaves the safety of his secluded desert city in an effort to save mankind despite warnings that invaders will return from outer space.

Against the Fall of Night

A massive alien starship carries its human passengers to the end of their generations-long odyssey and toward an epic confrontation with the mysterious Ramans. Reprint.

Rama Revealed

2001, una odisea espacial

Frederik Pohl

When Ranjit Subramianian comes up with a solution for Fermat's Last Theorem, he gains not only fame and fortune but also the attentions of the NSA and the secretive Pax per Fidem, while, unbeknownst to the inhabitants of Earth, alien invaders are on a col

The Last Theorem

Kim Stanley Robinson

This two-in-one package features a story of a space disaster victim's meeting with the actual Medusa and an evocation of mountain climbing on Mars

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