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In Clarke's authorised biography, Neil McAleer writes: "many readers and critics still consider Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke's best novel." [ 44 ] But Clarke did not use ESP in any of his later stories, saying, "I've always been interested in ESP, and of course, Childhood's End was about that.
Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime Vol. 4: The Medusa Encounter; Paul Preuss, 1990. Wrote Afterword; novel is based on Clarke's short story A Meeting with Medusa. Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime Vol. 5: The Diamond Moon; Paul Preuss, 1990. Wrote Afterword; novel is based on Clarke's short story Jupiter Five. Project Solar Sail; 1990. Editor.
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards.
A Fall of Moondust is a hard science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel , [ 1 ] and was the first science fiction novel selected to become a Reader's Digest Condensed Book .
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The City and the Stars is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1956.This novel is a complete rewrite of Clarke's earlier Against the Fall of Night, his first novel, which had been published in Startling Stories magazine in 1948 after being rejected by the editor of Astounding Science-Fiction, according to the author.
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke.The story follows the peaceful alien invasion [1] 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.
In the book, Clarke recounts his childhood in rural England spent reading issues of the American science fiction pulp magazine Astounding Stories of Super-Science (currently published as Analog), his early adulthood in London participating in activities (and serving as treasurer) of the British Interplanetary Society, and his later years in Sri Lanka and elsewhere.