From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man adventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is 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 director Stanley …
H.G. Wells' novel, "The War of the Worlds," made people start to look at the sky in a whole new way--from over their shoulders. Written in a journalistic style, blending fantastic events with real-life locations and actual science of its day, Wells' novel chronicles the sudden Martian invasion of our planet Earth. …
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, incredible, an interstellar …
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture. Clarke's idea for the book …
2010: Druga odiseja je znanstvenofantastični roman iz niza romanov Vesoljska odiseja angleškega pisatelja, futurologa in izumitelja Arthurja Charlesa Clarkea iz leta 1982. Druga odiseja govori o združeni ameriško-ruski odpravi, ki se je proti Jupitru z rusko vesoljsko ladjo Leonov odpravila iskati ameriško vesoljsko …
2061: Tretja odiseja je znanstvenofantastični roman iz niza romanov Vesoljska odiseja angleškega pisatelja, futurologa in izumitelja Arthurja Charlesa Clarkea iz leta 1987. Ker je niz Odisej tesno povezan z Jupitrom in njegovimi lunami, je hotel Clarke počakati s pisanjem tretjega dela, dokler ne bi odprava brez …
3001: The Final Odyssey is a science fiction novel by Sir Arthur C. Clarke. It is the fourth and final book in Clarke's Space Odyssey series.
Rama II is a novel by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1989. It recounts humankind's further interaction with the Ramans, first introduced in Rendezvous with Rama. Written primarily by Lee, Rama II has a distinctly different writing style than the original, with a more character driven narrative and …
The Garden of Rama is a novel by Gentry Lee and Arthur C. Clarke. It is the third book in the four-book Rama series: Rendezvous with Rama, Rama II, The Garden of Rama, and Rama Revealed, and follows on from where Rama II left off.
The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke based upon his 1958 short story of the same title. He stated that it was his favourite of all his novels. Clarke also wrote a short movie synopsis with the same title, published in Omni magazine and anthologized in The Sentinel in 1983. The …