Arthur C. Clarke Books In Order

Space Odyssey Books In Publication Order

  1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  2. 2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
  3. 2061: Odyssey Three (1987)
  4. 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

Rama Books In Publication Order

  1. Rendezvous with Rama (1973)
  2. Rama II (With: Gentry Lee) (1989)
  3. The Garden of Rama (With: Gentry Lee) (1991)
  4. Rama Revealed (With: Gentry Lee) (1993)
  5. Bright Messengers (By:Gentry Lee) (1995)
  6. Bright Messengers: A New Novel Set in the Rama Universe (By:Gentry Lee) (1995)
  7. Double Full Moon Night (By:Gentry Lee) (1999)
  8. The Tranquility Wars (By:Gentry Lee) (2000)
  9. The Tranquility Wars (By:Gentry Lee) (2000)

A Time Odyssey Books In Publication Order

  1. Time’s Eye (2003)
  2. Sunstorm (2005)
  3. Firstborn (By:Stephen Baxter) (2007)

Life Science Library Books In Publication Order

  1. The Body (By:Alan E. Nourse) (1964)
  2. Man And Space (1964)

Blue Planet Books In Publication Order

  1. The Coast of the Coral (1956)
  2. The Reefs of Taprobane (1956)
  3. The Treasure of the Great Reef (1964)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Against the Fall of Night (1948)
  2. Prelude to Space (1950)
  3. The Sands of Mars (1951)
  4. Islands in the Sky (1952)
  5. Childhood’s End (1953)
  6. Earthlight (1955)
  7. City and the Stars (1956)
  8. The Deep Range (1957)
  9. A Fall of Moondust (1961)
  10. Dolphin Island (1963)
  11. Glide Path (1963)
  12. Imperial Earth (1975)
  13. The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
  14. The Songs Of Distant Earth (1986)
  15. July 20, 2019 (1986)
  16. Cradle (1987)
  17. Beyond the Fall of Night (With: Gregory Benford) (1990)
  18. The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990)
  19. The Hammer of God (1993)
  20. Richter 10 (1996)
  21. The Trigger (1999)
  22. The Light of Other Days (With: Stephen Baxter) (2000)
  23. The Last Theorem (With: Frederik Pohl) (2008)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Interplanetary Flight (1950)
  2. The Exploration of Space (1951)
  3. Boy Beneath the Sea (1958)
  4. Voice Across The Sea (1958)
  5. Profiles of the Future (1962)
  6. Voices from the Sky (1966)
  7. The Promise of Space (1968)
  8. Into Space (With: Robert Silverberg) (1971)
  9. The View from Serendip (1977)
  10. 1984: Spring – A Choice of Futures (1984)
  11. Astounding Days (1990)
  12. How the World Was One (1992)
  13. Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! (1999)
  14. The Exploration of the Moon (2020)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Tales From The White Hart (1957)

Star Science Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (By:Frederik Pohl) (1953)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction Anthology Books In Publication Order

  1. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986)
  2. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection (1988)
  3. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991)
  4. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992)
  5. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993)
  6. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection (1995)
  7. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997)
  8. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999)
  9. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection (2000)
  10. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2001)
  11. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection (2002)
  12. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection (2005)
  13. The Best of the Best (2005)
  14. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection (2006)
  15. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection (2007)
  16. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (2008)
  17. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection (2008)
  18. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection (2010)
  19. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection (2013)
  20. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-First Annual Collection (2014)
  21. The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (2015)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955)
  2. 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1963)
  3. The Best of British SF 2 (1977)
  4. The Best of British SF 1 (1977)
  5. The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels (1980)
  6. Space Odyssey (1983)
  7. Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow (1987)
  8. The Ultimate Alien (1995)
  9. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)
  10. Bug-Eyed Monsters & Bimbos (2011)
  11. The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack (2014)
  12. Grave Predictions (2016)

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Arthur C. Clarke Books Overview

2001: A Space Odyssey

A deluxe hardcover edition of the science fiction classic…
now with a new introduction by Arthur C. Clarke!It has been over thirty years since the publication of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the science fiction classic that changed the way we looked at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system, Arthur C. Clarke takes us on a journey unlike any other. This allegory about humanity’s exploration of the universe, and the universe’s reaction to humanity, was the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film, and lives on as a hallmark achievement in storytelling. Special hardcover edition for the new millennium New introduction by Arthur C. Clarke Winner of the Science Fiction Writers’ Grand Master Award for Life Achievement Basis of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 movie chosen by American Film Institute as one of the 100 best films of all time 2001’s unforgettable character, HAL the computer, has been revived in Macintosh’s TV spots’Full of poetry, scientific imagination, and typical Clarke wit.’ The New Yorker’Breathtaking.’ Saturday Review’Brain boggling.’ Life’A mind bender.’ TimeSpecial Millennial Edition

2010: Odyssey Two

‘A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001.’ Carl SaganNine years after the disastrous Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, a joint U.S. Soviet expedition sets out to rendezvous with the derelict spacecraft to search the memory banks of the mutinous computer HAL 9000 for clues to what went wrong…
and what became of Commander Dave Bowman. Without warning, a Chinese expedition targets the same objective, turning the recovery mission into a frenzied race for the precious information Discovery may hold about the enigmatic monolith that orbits Jupiter. Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own…
‘Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play.’ Time’2010 is easily Clarkes’ best book in over a decade.’ The San Diego Tribune

2061: Odyssey Three

Arthur C. Clarke’s space saga contines in 2061, when an Earth vessel landing on Halley’s Comet marks the beginning of another confrontation between Heywood Floyd and David Bowman or whatever Bowman has become a newly independent HAL and the unseen alien power that controls the destiny of Earth. Arthur C. Clarke, one of most popular science fiction writers of the 20th century, has written over 50 books including ‘The City and the Stars’, ‘Rendezvous with Rama’, ‘Childhood’s End’, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ and ‘2010: Odyssey Two’.

3001: The Final Odyssey

It began four million years ago when a gleaming black monolith cast its shadow on the stark African savanna an inexplicable apparition that ignited the spark of human consciousness, transforming ape into man.

It continued at the dawn of the 21st century when an identical black monolith was excavated on the moon propelling Dave Bowman and his deputy Frank Poole on a mission to Jupiter that ended in the mutiny of the supercomputer HAL.

Only Dave Bowman would survive to encounter a third, and far more massive monolith on Jupiter’s moon Europa and be forever transformed into the star child.

It is the world of 2001: A Space Odyssey. And now, the odyssey enters its perilous ultimate stage. In 3001, the human race, incredibly, has survived, yet lives in baffled fear of the trio of monoliths that dominate the solar system until a ray of light beams forth from a totally unexpected source. The body of Frank Poole, believed dead for a thousand years, is recovered from the frozen reaches of the galaxy, restored to conscious life, and readied to resume the voyage that HAL abruptly terminated a thousand years back. He knows he cannot proceed until he reestablishes contact with Dave Bowman. But first he must fathom the terrifying truth of what Bowman and HAL have become inside the monolith.

In 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke brings the greatest and most successful science fiction series of all time to its magnificent, stunningly unforeseen conclusion. As we hurtle toward the new millennium in real time, Clarke brilliantly, daringly leaps one thousand years into the future to reveal a truth we are only now capable of comprehending. An epic masterpiece at once dazzlingly imaginative and grounded in scientific actuality, 3001 is a story that only Arthur C. Clarke could tell.

Rendezvous with Rama

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet bound scientists alike prepare for mankind’s first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams…
and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits just behind a Raman airlock door. Includes an exclusive introduction by Hugo Award winning author Robert J. Sawyer

Rama II (With: Gentry Lee)

Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed through our solar system as mind boggling proof that life existed or had existed elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. A crew of Earth’s best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. They are armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to encounter on board Rama II: cosmic secrets that are startling, sensational and perhaps even deadly. From the Paperback edition.

The Garden of Rama (With: Gentry Lee)

In the spellbinding Arthur C. Clarke tradition, here is an exhilarating adventure into the hearts of both the Universe and mankind…
By the twenty third century Earth has already had two encounters with massive, mysterious robotic spacecraft from beyond our solar system the incontestable proof of an alien technology that far exceeds our own. Now three human cosmonauts are trapped aboard a labyrinthine Raman vessel, where it will take all of their physical and mental resources to surviv. Only twelve years into their journey do these intrepid travelers learn their destination and face their ultimate challenge: a rendevous with a Raman base and the unseen architects of their galactic home. The cosmonauts have given up family, friends, and possessions to live a new kind of life. But the answers that await them at the Raman Node will require an even greater sacrifice if humanity is indeed ready to learn the awe inspiring truth.

Rama Revealed (With: Gentry Lee)

On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massive alien starship carries its human passengers to the end of a generations long odyssey. But the great experiment designed by the Ramans has failed, and Rama III has become a battleground. Fleeing a tyrant, a band of humans ventures into the nether regions of the ship, where they encounter an emerald doomed lair ruled by the fabulously advanced octospiders. As the octospiders lure the humans deeper into their domain, the humans must decide whether the creatures are their allies of enemies. All the while, Rama III continues its inexplorable journey towards the node, where the climax of their voyage awaits the stunning revelation of the true identity of the beings behind this glittering trek across the cosmos.

Bright Messengers (By:Gentry Lee)

To Sister Beatrice, a priestess of the global Order of St. Michael, the cloud of tiny white particles is a message from God. To Johann Eberhardt, a German systems engineer, it is an anomaly of physics. But to the Rama society, it may; be the long awaited proof of nonhuman intelligence. On Mars, Johann and Beatrice will meet, drawn together by a fabulous account of a vast city lost beneath the red planet’s harsh landscape. Joined by none Martian colonists, the mystic and the skeptic will board a strange craft that will hurtle them toward the truth behind the mysterious bright messergers and a startling journey into the heart of the unknown.

Bright Messengers: A New Novel Set in the Rama Universe (By:Gentry Lee)

To Sister Beatrice, a priestess of the global Order of St. Michael, the cloud of tiny white particles is a message from God. To Johann Eberhardt, a German systems engineer, it is an anomaly of physics. But to the Rama society, it may; be the long awaited proof of nonhuman intelligence. On Mars, Johann and Beatrice will meet, drawn together by a fabulous account of a vast city lost beneath the red planet’s harsh landscape. Joined by none Martian colonists, the mystic and the skeptic will board a strange craft that will hurtle them toward the truth behind the mysterious bright messergers and a startling journey into the heart of the unknown.

Double Full Moon Night (By:Gentry Lee)

New York Times bestselling author Gentry Lee, co author with Arthur C. Clarke of Rama II, The Garden of Rama, and Rama Revealed, tells an unforgettable tale of two timeless lovers, a group of Martian colonists, and one of the most thrilling and mysterious adventures in human history. On a tiny island paradise inside a vast alien sphere, Johann Eberhardt and his daughter, Maria, live in virtual isolation. Now their paradise has been invaded by a violent and enigmatic life form. Risking everything, Johann and Maria begin a treacherous journey across the waters in search of their fellow Martian colonists. But they have no idea what awaits them on the other side until a mystical vision of Johann’s beloved Beatrice appears to him with a dire warning and the possibility of attaining an undreamed of spiritual evolution. Soon to be transported to an exotic planet, the colonists must overcome their dissension and jealousy if they are to survive the upcoming ‘double full moon night.’ If not, they will all be destroyed…
and the secrets of the universe will remain forever unknown to mankind.

The Tranquility Wars (By:Gentry Lee)

A young student, a dangerous love affair, and an explosive conflict to establish control over humanity…
For young Hunter Blake, the future is bright. He has been awarded the exclusive Covington Fellowship, which brings fame, a generous stipend, and two years of privileged study on Mars. He has also been reunited with his lifelong love, Tehani Wilawa. But as tensions mount between rival government factions, bands of renegade space pirates begin raiding, looting, kidnapping, and building their ranks from the disaffected of both space powers. When Hunter and Tehani are kidnapped by a pirate band, they find themselves questioning truths they ve accepted all their lives. Are the space pirates really the avatars of a new freedom or simply criminals? To answer, they must learn the razor thin difference between freedom and anarchy, obedience and slavery, pleasure and indulgence. And for Hunter Blake, his greatest crisis is no longer a matter of success or failure, but of life or death.

The Tranquility Wars (By:Gentry Lee)

A young student, a dangerous love affair, and an explosive conflict to establish control over humanity…
For young Hunter Blake, the future is bright. He has been awarded the exclusive Covington Fellowship, which brings fame, a generous stipend, and two years of privileged study on Mars. He has also been reunited with his lifelong love, Tehani Wilawa. But as tensions mount between rival government factions, bands of renegade space pirates begin raiding, looting, kidnapping, and building their ranks from the disaffected of both space powers. When Hunter and Tehani are kidnapped by a pirate band, they find themselves questioning truths they ve accepted all their lives. Are the space pirates really the avatars of a new freedom or simply criminals? To answer, they must learn the razor thin difference between freedom and anarchy, obedience and slavery, pleasure and indulgence. And for Hunter Blake, his greatest crisis is no longer a matter of success or failure, but of life or death.

Time’s Eye

Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. If Clarke has an heir among today’s science fiction writers, it is award winning author Stephen Baxter. In each of his acclaimed novels, Baxter has demonstrated dazzling gifts of imagination and intellect, along with a rare ability to bring the most cerebral science dramatically to life. Now these two champions of humanism and scientific speculation have combined their talents in a novel sure to be one of the most talked about of the year, a 2001 for the new millennium. TIME S EYEFor eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still?The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037 three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge…
and the power that lies within. Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting…
. From the Hardcover edition.

Sunstorm

When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writer ever, teams up with award winning author Stephen Baxter, who shares Clarke’s bold vision of a future where technology and humanism advance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellar ambition and accomplishment. Such was the case with Time s Eye. Now, in the highly anticipated sequel, Clarke and Baxter draw their epic to a triumphant conclusion that is as mind blowing as anything in Clarke s famous Space Odyssey series. SunstormReturned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth s history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance?Bisesa s questions receive a chilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in the sun s core an anomaly that has no natural cause is evidence of alien intervention over two thousand years before. Now plans set in motion millennia ago by inscrutable watchers light years away are coming to fruition in a Sunstorm designed to scour the Earth of all life in a bombardment of deadly radiation. Thus commences a furious race against a ticking solar time bomb. But even now, as apocalypse looms, cooperation is not easy for the peoples and nations of the Earth. Religious and political differences threaten to undermine every effort. And all the while, the Firstborn are watching…
From the Hardcover edition.

Firstborn (By:Stephen Baxter)

The Firstborn the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey have inhabited legendary master of science fiction Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s writing for decades. With Time s Eye and Sunstorm, the first two books in their acclaimed Time Odyssey series, Clarke and his brilliant co author Stephen Baxter imagined a near future in which the Firstborn seek to stop the advance of human civilization by employing a technology indistinguishable from magic.

Their first act was the Discontinuity, in which Earth was carved into sections from different eras of history, restitched into a patchwork world, and renamed Mir. Mir s inhabitants included such notables as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and United Nations peacekeeper Bisesa Dutt. For reasons unknown to her, Bisesa entered into communication with an alien artifact of inscrutable purpose and godlike power a power that eventually returned her to Earth. There, she played an instrumental role in humanity s race against time to stop a doomsday event: a massive solar storm triggered by the alien Firstborn designed to eradicate all life from the planet. That fate was averted at an inconceivable price. Now, twenty seven years later, the Firstborn are back.

This time, they are pulling no punches: They have sent a quantum bomb. Speeding toward Earth, it is a device that human scientists can barely comprehend, that cannot be stopped or destroyed and one that will obliterate Earth.

Bisesa s desperate quest for answers sends her first to Mars and then to Mir, which is itself threatened with extinction. The end seems inevitable. But as shocking new insights emerge into the nature of the Firstborn and their chilling plans for mankind, an unexpected ally appears from light years away.

The Coast of the Coral

The world famous science and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke spent two adventurous years exploring the Great Barrier Reef, the mightiest coral formation in the world. Illustrated with rare underwater photographs by Mike Wilson, here is a unique look into a region of mystery, of boundless beauty and danger one of the most intriguing frontiers on our planet. First trade paperback edition New introduction by Arthur C. Clarke The first in a trilogy of real life underwater adventures, as experienced by the world renowned author. The remaining volumes The Reefs of Taprobane and The Treasure of the Great Reef will also be reissued by ibooks. Over 2,000,000 Arthur C. Clarke novels and science books in print worldwide. 16 pages of stunning black and white photographs by Mike Wilson!

Against the Fall of Night

The 10 billion year old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity’s last home. Alone among immortals, the only man born in 10 million years desperately wants to find what lies beyond the City. His quest will uncover the destiny of a people and a galaxy. This book also includes the classic short story Jupiter V.

Islands in the Sky

Bestselling author Clarke provides a new introduction for this science fiction thriller.

Childhood’s End

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords have an agenda of their own. As civilization approaches the crossroads, will the Overlords spell the end for humankind…
or the beginning? ‘In Eric Summerer’s capable hands, the plot of Childhood’s End is smoothly presented and fully credible…
. Summerer excels at delivering the aliens’ quiet and intensely engaging dialogue with people. His nuanced performance creates a growing feeling of uneasiness in the listener as the Overlords’ insatiable curiosity and watchfulness begin to suggest something less than benign at work.’ AudioFile

Earthlight

The time: 200 years after man’s first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus and Mars. Outer space inhabitants have formed a new political entity, the Federation, and between the Federation and Earth a growing rivalry has developed. Earthlight is the story of this emerging conflict.

City and the Stars

Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then, as legend had it, The invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge. It takes one man, A Unique to break through Diaspar’s stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the Invaders.

The Deep Range

Science fiction about the sea, and Marine life. Great book.

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 unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A Fall of Moondust is a tour de force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension. ‘The best book yet about man’s most dramatic journey, the most exciting science fiction novel for years.’ Evening Standard ‘Expertly told and cruelly exciting to the end.’ Sunday Times ‘Extremely good…
with some superbly ingenious and exciting new twists.’ Daily Express

Glide Path

During World War II, as an RAF officer, Arthur C. Clarke was in charge of the first radar ‘talk down’ equipment, the Ground Controlled Approach, during its experimental trials. His novel Glide Path is based on this work.

Imperial Earth

Imperial Earth is the fascinating odyssey of Duncan Makenzie, traveling from Titan, a moon of Saturn, to Earth, as a diplomatic guest of the United States for the celebration of its Quincentennial in the year 2276. Titan, an independent republic, was originally colonized from Earth three generations earlier. Duncan’s initial challenge is to prepare, physically and intellectually, for the 500 million mile trip to Earth. Once there, he is caught up in a sweep of new experiences, including the social and political whirl in Washington, a strange visit to a carefully preserved ancient city once prominent in the 20th century, and a search for and meeting with a woman he loved since she visited Titan years before.

The Fountains of Paradise

Vannemar Morgans dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all timea 24,000 mile high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on the planet for Morgans Orbital Tower is the monastery atop the Sacred Mountain of Sri Kanda.

The Songs Of Distant Earth

The countdown to doomsday began with the discovery in 1956 of the neutrino, a particle with no mass and no charge. By the year 2001, the significance of this phantom particle was understood: it was a harbinger. A cosmic event was imminent, and would be close enough to touch. Soon the Sun would go nova; the demolition of Earth was assured. And so it happened in the year 3620. Over the centuries of knowing the end was at hand, humanity pulled together to launch probes into space. Primitive ships, at first, carrying embryos to distant systems, relying on machines to incubate and rear the first people of a virgin land beneath an alien sun. On Earth the Lords of the Last Days lived with no need to care for the future of the world; it was the wildest of times, and the saddest. Last to leave was the Magellan carrying a million homeless; when cataclysm struck, its voyagers witnessed through telescopes the death of Earth and all its wonders, saw the Atlantic boil dry, the pyramids disintegrate, the land of Antarctica briefly bare of ice before fire consumed everything. Then the million slept. Five hundred years later, the Magellan must make planetfall to repair its quantum drive. Its sleepers awake to find themselves visitors to Thalassa, where a cvilization has, in fact, survived. A clash of cultures unlike any before brings danger, despair, and some very tough decisions for two different peoples far from Earth and its distant songs.

Cradle

This far reaching, spine tingling adventure stretches from the dawn of time to the distant future, from the edges of the universe to the vast depths of the sea. At the bottom of the ocean, an alien creature is dormant. But the time has come for it to awaken. And as it stirs, its power will be unleashed on the planet and trigger the dawn of human extinction.

The Ghost from the Grand Banks

The Ghost from the Grand Banks A hundred years after the epic disaster, two powerful geniuses compete to turn fantasy into fact by raising the Titanic. But beneath the rival technologies, fortunes, and egos, two fatal obsessions rage…
and the Titanic may again become a deathtrap. THE DEEP RANGE In the aftermath of a Martian disaster, space is denied to traumatized astronaut Walter Franklin. He finds a new life as a submarine warden protecting ocean dwelling farmers and scientists…
only to find that the underwater realm holds dangers as dark and deep as the stars.

The Hammer of God

In the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky and sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization. While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a sign from God, the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately search for a way to avoid the inevitable. On board the starship Goliath Captain Robert Singh and his crew must race against time to redirect the meteor form its deadly collision course. Suddenly they find themselves on the most important mission in human history a mission whose success may require the ultimate sacrifice.

Richter 10

Seismologist Lewis Crane uses his latest earthquake prediction theory to forecast exactly when and where a Richter 10 will strike, but no one believes that he can stop this catastrophe from changing the face of the earth, and he must fight it alone. NYT.

The Light of Other Days (With: Stephen Baxter)

From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his generation, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass. When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times around every corner, through every wall the result is the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy, forever. Then the same technology proves able to look backward in time as well. The Light of Other Days is a story that will change your view of what it is to be human.

The Last Theorem (With: Frederik Pohl)

Two of science fiction’s most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittingly grand farewell from the late, great visionary author of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Last Theorem is a story of one man s mathematical obsession, and a celebration of the human spirit and the scientific method. It is also a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from all but omnipotent aliens, the Grand Galactics, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together…
or perish. In 1637, the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat scrawled a note in the margin of a book about an enigmatic theorem: I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. He also neglected to record his proof elsewhere. Thus began a search for the Holy Grail of mathematics a search that didn t end until 1994, when Andrew Wiles published a 150 page proof. But the proof was burdensome, overlong, and utilized mathematical techniques undreamed of in Fermat s time, and so it left many critics unsatisfied including young Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a special gift for mathematics and a passion for the famous Last Theorem. When Ranjit writes a three page proof of the theorem that relies exclusively on knowledge available to Fermat, his achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame and fortune. But it also brings him to the attention of the National Security Agency and a shadowy United Nations outfit called Pax per Fidem, or Peace Through Transparency, whose secretive workings belie its name. Suddenly Ranjit together with his wife, Myra de Soyza, an expert in artificial intelligence, and their burgeoning family finds himself swept up in world shaking events, his genius for abstract mathematical thought put to uses that are both concrete and potentially deadly. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to anyone on Earth, an alien fleet is approaching the planet at a significant percentage of the speed of light. Their mission: to exterminate the dangerous species of primates known as ho*mo sapiens.

Profiles of the Future

This book originally appeared in 1962, and was based on essays written during the period 1959 1961. Since it was concerned with ultimate possibilities, and not with achievements to be expected in the near future, even the remarkable events of the last decade have dated it very little. But Arthur Clarke has gone over the book making corrections and comments where necessary in order to bring it right up to date. The author, amongst many fascinating excursions into what the future may hold, discusses the fourth dimension and the obsolescence of the law of gravity, the exploration of the entire solar system and the colonisation of some of it; seas will mined for energy and minerals, and asteroids will be pulled to Earth to supply needed materials; men, already bigger than they need be, may be bred smaller to be more efficient on less food.

Astounding Days

This ‘science fictional autobiography’ by the author of ‘Childhood’s End’ and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ is an account of the circumstances and stories that set Arthur C. Clarke on the path to becoming one of the world’s most successful science fiction writers.

How the World Was One

A history and survey of the communications revolution, from the struggles to lay the transatlantic telephone wires in the 1950s to the development of communication satellites and the new breakthrough in fibre optics. Other work by the author includes ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.

Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!

Arthur C. Clarke is one of this century’s most visionary and versatile thinkers. In the crowning achievement of his extraordinary career, Clarke has collected his ground breaking non fiction pieces into one volume. Charting an exceptional career of over six decades, the essays in Greetings, Carbon Based Bipeds! reveal Clarke’s piercing mind and lively wit as well as the march of science through our modern age. AUTHORBIO: Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE was born in England in 1917 and has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956. He is the author of such bestselling books as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhoods End and Rendezvous with Rama.

Tales From The White Hart

The 50th Anniversary Edition of one of Arthur C. Clarke’s best loved collections featuring a brand new White Hart story written in collaboration with Stephen Baxter. Although written, as the author informs us in his Introduction to the 1969 edition, in such diverse locations as New York, Miami, Columbo and Sydney there is something inherently English about these stories. London’s famed Fleet Street district has changed dramatically in the five decades since the collection’s first appearance as a Ballantine paperback original…
and, of course, many of the regulars of the White Hart based on the White Horse pub on Fetter Lane are no longer with us. But the White Hart’s most prominent raconteaur, Harry Purvis can still be found propping up the bar and regaling us all once again with tales of quirky and often downright eccentric scientists and inventors. Here, for example, are a man who could control a giant squid; a man who could silence an entire orchestra at the flick of a switch; and a French genius who invents a machine that can record all human pleasures and transmit them to any client rich enough to afford such luxury. And rounding up the whole affair is ‘Time Gentlemen, Please’, in which we encounter a gadget able to accelerate the passage of time in a small volume…
immensely useful for vaccine research where an entire year’s worth of study could be completed in seconds. But the hapless inventor finds himself walled off by immobile air molecules…
and even worse. It’s a tale which points out, with some nostalgic resonance, that we simply cannot slow the passage of time. A fitting last word for one of SF’s most enduring watering holes!

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection

Third in series, winner of the 1987 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology. Contents include Introduction: Summation: 1985, essay by Gardner Dozois; The Jaguar Hunter, by Lucius Shepard nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1985 World Fantasy Award; Dogfight, by Michael Swanwick and William Gibson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; Fermi and Frost, by Frederik Pohl winner, 1986 Hugo Award; Green Days in Brunei, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Snow, by John Crowley nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Fringe, by Orson Scott Card nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; The Lake Was Full of Artificial Things, by Karen Joy Fowler; Sailing to Byzantium, by Robert Silverberg winner, 1985 Nebula Award; nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Solstice, by James Patrick Kelly; Duke Pasquale’s Ring, novella by Avram Davidson; More Than the Sum of His Parts, by Joe Haldeman nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Out of All Them Bright Stars, by Nancy Kress Winner, 1985 Nebula Award; Side Effects, by Walter Jon Williams; The Only Neat Thing to Do, by James Tiptree, Jr. nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; winner, 1986 Locus Poll Award; Dinner in Audoghast, by Bruce Sterling nominated, 1986 Hugo Award; Under Siege, by George R. R. Martin 1986 Locus Poll Award, 6th Place; Flying Saucer Rock & Roll, by Howard Waldrop nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award; A Spanish Lesson, by Lucius Shepard Locus Poll Award, 11th Place; Roadside Rescue, by Pat Cadigan; Paper Dragons, by James P. Blaylock winner, 1986 World Fantasy Award; nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Magazine Section, by R. A. Lafferty; The War at Home, by Lewis Shiner 1986 Locus Poll Award, 21st Place; Rockabye Baby, by S. C. Sykes nominated, 1985 Nebula Award; Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson nominated, 1985 Nebula Award, 1986 Hugo Award.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection

Annually assembling the best science fiction of the year, this series continues to live up to its name with the most original, innovative, and wonderful short fiction published in 1990. A thorough summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of recommended reading round out this volume, rendering it the one book for every reader.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection

In The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois produces another volume in the series that Locus calls ‘the field’s real anthology of record.’ With a unique combination of foresight and perspective, Dozois continues to collect outstanding work by newcomers and established authors alike, reflecting the present state of the genre while suggesting its future directions. With the editor’s annual summary of the year in the field, and his appendix of recommended reading, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary science fiction.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection

Join twenty eight of today’s finest writers for a host of imaginative tours through worlds as fabulous as the farthest galaxy and as strange as life on earth can be. Among the talented story tellers in this volume are: Stephen Baxter, James P. Blaylock, Tony Daniel, Gregory Feeley, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Reed, Michael Sanwick, Cherry Wilder, Walter Jon Williams, Gene Wolfe, Steven Utley, and many more of tomorrow’s leading imaginations. Gardener Dozois’s summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of honorable mentions round out this volume, making it the one book for anyone who’s interested in SF today.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

Long regarded as the premier annual collection of science fiction stories, Gardner Dozois’s latest volume of The Year’s Best Science Fiction continues this tradition of excellence with twenty five representing the finest offerings in the field. Among the gems included here are: ‘Story of Your Life’ by Ted Chiang, in which the story of alien contact and a very human drama merge beautifully ‘The Island of the Immortals’ by Ursula K. Le Guin, in which a brave traveler investigates the reasons why people shun the exotic island ‘Approaching Perimelasma’ by Geoffrey A. Landis, which boldly takes us into a black hole and through the stunning changes that ensue ‘Taklamakan’ by Bruce Sterling, a wildly inventive tale of future spies in a Lost World ‘The Summer Isles’ by Ian R. MacLeod, a moving novella reflecting an alternate history in which the Great War turned out a bit differently In addition, there are twenty more stories here by the field’s masters and by up and coming new writers, including: William Barton Stephen Baxter Rob Chilson Tony Daniel Cory Doctorow Greg Egan Jim Grimsley Gwyneth Jones Chris Lawson Tanith Lee Paul J. McAuley Ian McDonald Robert Reed William Browning Spencer Allen Steele Michael Swanwick Howard Waldrop Cherry Wilder Liz Williams Robert Charles Wilson Completing the collection are Dozois’s insightful survey of the year in science fiction and a long list of Honorable Mentions. With its explorations of outer space and inner space, with its examinations of what it means to be human today and tomorrow, and with its love of a good yarn, this volume remains the single best source for science fiction stories.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Seventeenth Annual Collection

In science fiction’s early days, stories often looked past 1984 to the year 2000 as the far unknowable future. Here now, on the brink of the twenty first century, the future remains as distant and as unknowable as ever…
and science fiction stories continue to explore it with delightful results: Collected in this anthology are such imaginative gems as: ‘The Wedding Album’ by David Marusek. In a high tech future, the line between reality and simulation has grown thin…
and it’s often hard to tell who’s on what side. ‘Everywhere’ by Geoff Ryman. Do the people who live in utopian conditions ever recognize them as such? ‘Hatching the Phoenix’ by Frederik Pohl. One of science fiction’s Grand Masters returns with a star crossing tale of the Heechee the enigmatic, vanished aliens whose discarded technology guides mankind through the future. ‘A Hero of the Empire’ by Robert Silverberg. Showing that the past is as much a province of the imagination as the future, this novelette returns to an alternate history when the Roman Empire never fell to show us just how the course of history can be altered. The twenty seven stories in this collection imaginatively take us to nearby planets and distant futures, into the past and into universes no larger than a grain of sand. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection

The twenty three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Stephen Baxter, M. Shayne Bell, Rick Cook, Albert E. Cowdrey, Tananarive Due, Greg Egan, Eliot Fintushel, Peter F. Hamilton, Earnest Hogan, John Kessel, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul J. McAuley, Ian McDonald, Susan Palwick, Severna Park, Alastair Reynolds, Lucius Shepard, Brian Stableford, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Steven Utley, Robert Charles WilsonSupplementing the stories is the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection

The twenty first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily…
and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results:Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as:’On K2 with Kanakaredes’ by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company. ‘The Human Front’ by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming of age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them and nothing is as it appears to be.’Glacial’ by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction. The twenty six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Eleanor ArnasonChris BeckettMichael BlumleinMichael CassuttBrenda W. CloughPaul Di FilippoAndy DuncanCarolyn Ives GilmanJim GrimsleySimon IngsJames Patrick KellyLeigh KennedyNancy KressIan R. MacLeodKen MacLeodPaul J. McAuleyMaureen F. McHughRobert ReedAlastair ReynoldsGeoff RymanWilliam SandersDan SimmonsAllen M. SteeleCharles StrossMichael SwanwickHoward WaldropSupplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year’s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year’s Best Science Fiction Winner of the 2004 Locus Award for Best Anthology continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories representing the previous year’s best SF writing. The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of tomorrow. This book is a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Best of the Best

For years, The Year’s Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection. Contributors include: Stephen Baxter Greg Bear William Bigson Terry Bisson Pat Cadigan Ted Chiang John Crowley Tony Daniel Greg Egan Molly Gloss Eileen Gunn Joe Haldeman James Patrick Kelly John Kessel Nancy Kress Ursula K. Le Guin Ian R. MacLeod David Marusek Paul McAuley Ian McDonald Maureen F. McHugh Robert Reed Mike Resnick Geoff Ryman William Sander Lucius Shepard Robert Silverberg Brian Stableford Bruce Sterling Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Steven Utley Howard Waldrop Walter Jon Williams Connie Willis Gene WolfeWith work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best stands as one of the ultimate science fiction anthologies ever published.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Third Annual Collection

In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has become a porthole into the realities of tomorrow. In The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty third Annual Collection, our very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world with such compelling stories as:

Beyond the Aquila Rift : Critically acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds takes readers to the edge of the universe, where no voyager has dared to travel before or so we think.

Comber : Our world is an ever changing one, and award winning author Gene Wolfe explores the darker side of our planet s fluidity in his own beautiful and inimitable style.

Audubon in Atlantis : In a world not quite like our own, bestselling author Harry Turtledove shows us that there are reasons some species have become extinct.

The twenty nine stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Chris Beckett, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelley, Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold, Ken MacLeod, Ian McDonald, Vonda N. McIntyre, David Moles, Derryl Murphy, Steven Popkes, Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, William Sanders, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Harry Turtledove, Peter Watts, Liz Williams, and Gene Wolfe. Supplementing the stories are the editor s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection

The twenty eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:
Cory Doctorow Robert Charles Wilson Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Benjamin Rosenbaum Kage Baker Bruce McAllister Alastair Reynolds Jay Lake Ruth Nestvold Gregory Benford Justin Stanchfield Walter Jon Williams Greg Van Eekhout Robert Reed David D. Levine Paul J. McAuley Mary Rosenblum Daryl Gregory Jack Skillingstead Paolo Bacigalupi Greg Egan Elizabeth Bear Sarah Monette Ken MacLeod Stephen Baxter Carolyn Ives Gilman John Barnes A.M. Dellamonica
Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year s events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty Fifth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Ian McDonald, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kage Baker, Walter Jon Williams, Alastair Reynolds, and Charles Stross . And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection

The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliete de Bodard, James L. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Gwyneth Jones, Ted Kosmatka, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen McHugh, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Geoff Ryman, Karl Schroeder, Gord Sellar, and Michael Swanwick. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection

The thirty two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including:John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor’s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart. Gardner Dozois has been working in the science fiction field for more than thirty years. For twenty years he was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction, during which time he received the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times. The thirty two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor s insightful summation of the year s events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart. Praise for Gardner Dozois and The Year s Best Science Fiction: Twenty sixth Annual Collection: This is a worthy addition to a venerable series. Publishers Weekly’For more than a quarter century, Gardner Dozois’s The Year s Best Science Fiction has defined the field. It is the most important anthology, not only annually, but overall.’ Charles N. Brown, publisher of Locus MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsSummation: 2009’Utriusque Cosmi’ Robert Charles Wilson’A Story, With Beans’ Steven Gould’Under The Shouting Sky’ Karl Bunker’Events Preceding The Helvetican Renaissance’ John Kessel’Useless Things’ Maureen F. McHugh’Black Swan’ Bruce Sterling’Crimes and Glory’ Paul J. McAuley’Seventh Fall’ Alexander Irvine’Butterfly Bomb’ Dominic Green’Infinities’ Vandana Singh’Things Undone’ John Barnes’On the Human Plan’ Jay Lake’The Island’ Peter Watts’The Integrity of the Chain’ Lavie Tidhar’Lion Walk’ Mary Rosenblum’Escape To Other Worlds With Science Fiction’ Jo walton’Three Leaves of Aloe’ Rand B. Lee’Mongoose’ Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette’Paradiso Lost’ Albert E. Cowdrey’It Takes Two’ Nicola Griffith’Blocked’ Geoff Ryman’Solace’ James Van Pelt’Act One’ Nancy Kress’Twilight of the Gods’ John C. Wright’Blood Dauber’ Ted Kosmatka and Michael Poore’This Wind BLowing, And This Tide’ Damien Broderick’Hair’ Adam Roberts’Before My Last Breath’ Robert Reed’One of our Bast*ards Is Missing’ Paul Cornell’Edison’s Frankenstein’ Chris Roberson’Erosion’ Ian Creasey’Vishnu at the Cat Circus’ Ian McDonaldHonorable Mentions: 2009

The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels

1981 Locus Poll Award, Best Anthology Place: 15. Compiled by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg, this is a mammoth anthology of great science fiction short novels, including: Beyond Bedlam, by Wyman Guin; Equinoctial 1978 Locus Poll Award, Best Novella Place: 12 , by John Varley; By His Bootstraps, by Robert A. Heinlein; The Golden Helix, by Theodore Sturgeon; Born With the Dead winner, 1974 Nebula Award, 1975 Locus Poll Award. Nominated, 1975 Hugo Award , by Robert Silverberg; Second Game nominated, 1958 Hugo Award , by Katherine MacLean and Charles V. De Vet; The Dead Past, by Isaac Asimov; The Road to the Sea, by Arthur C. Clarke; The Star Pit nominated, 1968 Hugo Award , by Samuel R. Delany; Giant Killer nominated, 1996 Retro Hugo Award , by A. Bertram Chandler; A Case of Conscience incorporated into the novel of the same name as Book One , by James Blish; Dio, by Damon Knight; Houston, Houston, Do You Read? winner, 1976 Nebula Award, 1977 Hugo Award. 1977 Locus Poll Award, Best Novella Place: 3 , by James Tiptree, Jr.; On the Storm Planet nominated, 1965 Nebula Award , by Cordwainer Smith; The Miracle Workers nominated, 1959 Hugo Award , by Jack Vance.

The Ultimate Alien

In this strange and exciting collection, some of the best known authors of the fantastic explore the intricacies and speculations of human encounters with the other…
with aliens. From Robert Silverberg’s examination of interspecies marriage to Arthur C. Clarke’s classic tale of the exploration of Venus, from Mike Resnick and Nicholas A. DiChario’s hilarious look at an alien radio broadcast to Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s intense study of a woman taken over by a plant like creature here are spectacular stories transcending time and space.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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