Arthur C. Clarke

December 16, 1917 to March 19, 2008

Born in Minehead, England & Died in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Inventor and impressively productive author of science fiction novels. Best known for the novel, 2001, A Space Odyssey, and for the Kubrick directed movie of the same name.

Quote

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion."

Off-Site Resource

The Arthuc C. Clarke Foundation

Bibliography

Novels

Prelude to Space - 1951

Islands in the Sky - 1952

Against the Fall of Night - 1953

Childhood's End - 1953

Expedition To Earth - 1953

The Deep Range - 1957

Dolphin Island - 1963

2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968

Rendezvous With Rama - 1973

Imperial Earth - 1975

The Fountains of Paradise - 1979

2010: Odyssey Two - 1982

The Songs of Distant Earth - 1986

2061: Odyssey Three - 1988

Cradle - 1988 (with Gentry Lee)

Rama II - 1989 (with Gentry Lee)

The Garden of Rama - 1991 (with Gentry Lee)

Rama Revealed - 1993 (with Gentry Lee)

The Hammer of God - 1993

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 - 2004 (with Stephen Baxter)

Sunstorm - 2005 (with Stephen Baxter)

Firstborn - 2007 (Stephen Baxter)

The Last Theorem - 2008 (with Frederick Pohl to be published 2008)

Short Story Collection

Expedition to Earth - 1953

Reach for Tomorrow - 1956

Tales from the White Hart - 1957

The Other Side of the Sky - 1957

Tales of the 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

Nonfiction

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