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

rating : 1 : unmissable

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?

Arthur C. Clarke.
Expedition to Earth.
Sphere. 1954

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

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

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

(read but not reviewed)

Reach for Tomorrow by Arthur C. Clarke is a spectrum of stories as wide and varied as the universe itself. Stories of swirling nebula and eons of time, of man’s frailties and man’s mightiness, of strange gods and beings from other times and other worlds who come to haunt man or to challenge him…

Contents

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

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

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

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

Arthur C. Clarke.
The Challenge of the Spaceship.
Ballantine. 1961

The last quarter of this century will be an age of exploration such as Man has never seen before. Astronomy and physics will be the fields of knowledge most immediately affected. Yet the first direct results of astronautics may be less important in the long run than the indirect consequences. With the expansion of the world’s mental horizons may come one of the greatest outbursts of creative activity ever known.

In The Challenge Of The Spaceship Arthur C. Clarke speculates on the changes that will come in our own generation – the first generation to break away from the limitations of our own planet – and predicts some of the astonishing scientific developments that will inevitably come in future centuries. Among these will be manned spaceships traveling at speeds of more than 1,000,000 m.p.h., techniques for changing and controlling the climate of the entire earth, exploration of an area ten times greater than all our continents on the other planets of the Solar System, and discovery of the basic secrets of life and synthesis of living matter in the laboratory.

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

rating : 1.5 : unmissable

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

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

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Venture to the Moon. 1956
• Refugee. == ?. 1955
• The Star. 1955
• The Nine Billion Names of God. 1953
• The Other Side of the Sky. 1957
• Special Delivery. 1961
• Feathered Friend. 1961
• Take a Deep Breath. 1961
• Freedom of Space. 1961
• Passer-by. 1961
• The Call of the Stars. 1961
• The Wall of Darkness. 1949
• Security Check. 1957
• No Morning After. 1954
• The Starting Line. 1961
• Robin Hood, F.R.S.. 1961
• Green Fingers. 1961
• All That Glitters. 1961
• Watch This Space. 1961
• A Question of Residence. 1961
• Publicity Campaign. 1956
• All the Time in the World. 1952
• Cosmic Casanova. 1961
• Out of the Sun. 1954
• Transcience. 1961
• The Songs of Distant Earth. 1961

Arthur C. Clarke.
Profiles of the Future.
Pan. 1962

(read but not reviewed)

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

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

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

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

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• A Meeting With Medusa. 1972
• 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. == A Recursion in Metastories. 1966
• Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq.. 1967
• Love That Universe. 1966
• Crusade. 1966
• The Cruel Sky. 1966
• Neutron Tide. 1970
• Transit of Earth. 1970

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

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

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

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

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

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

Arthur C. Clarke.
Report on Planet Three.
Corgi. 1972

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Report on Planet Three. 1972
• The Men on the Moon. 1972
• Meteors. 1972
• The Star of the Magi. 1972
• Vacation in Vacuum. 1972
• So You're Going to Mars?. 1972
• Next - The Planets!. 1972
• The Planets Are Not Enough. 1972
• When the Aliens Come. 1972
• Possible, That's All!. 1972
• God and Einstein. 1972
• Across the Sea of Stars. 1972
• The Mind of the Machine. 1972
• Technology and the Future. 1972
• Beyond Babel. 1972
• More than Five Senses. 1972
• Things That Can Never Be Done. 1972
• The World We Cannot See. 1972
• Things in the Sky. 1972
• Which Way Is Up?. 1972
• Haldane and Space. 1972
• Son of Dr. Strangelove. 1972
• The Myth of 2001. 1972

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

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• The Awakening. 1942
• Summertime on Icarus. == The Hottest Piece of Real Estate in the Solar System. 1960
• Hide and Seek. 1949
• History Lesson. 1949
• Castaway. 1947
• Whacky. 1942
• Retreat from Earth. 1938
• Travel by Wire. 1937
• Into the Comet. == Inside the Comet. 1960
• Second Dawn. 1951
• Venture to the Moon. 1956
• The Sentinel. 1954
• Refugee. == ?. 1955
• The Star. 1955
• Hate. == At the End of the Orbit. 1961
• Death and the Senator. 1961
• Sunjammer. 1965
• (bibliography). 1973
• A Meeting With Medusa. 1972

Arthur C. Clarke.
The Ghost from the Grand Banks.
Bantam. 1990

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

(read but not reviewed)

Contents

• Larry Niven. The Fourth Profession. 1971
• Poul Anderson. Sunjammer. 1964
• The Wind From the Sun. 1963
• 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. 1990
• Alfred Lord Tennyson. Argosies of Magic Sails. 1990
• 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
• Afterword to "Project Solar Sail". 1990

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

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

Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl.
The Last Theorem.
Harper Collins. 2008

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

rating : 1 : unmissable

revised and expanded "Against the Fall of Night"

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

expansion of "Against the Fall of Night"

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

rating : 1 : unmissable

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.

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