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Sunstorm: A Time Odyssey
Book II
2037
The sun flares. Thousands die. Suddenly our high-technology civilisation seems terribly vulnerable. We recover. We rebuild. But this is just the precursor.
In April 2042, in just five years, the sun will flare once more.
But this time the sun will hurl out in one day the energy it would normally spend in a year. This time nothing on Earth will survive. As plans are drawn up to save mankind, as all Earth’s resources are mobilised for one unimaginable engineering effort, one question nags: Why now?
An epic account of our epochal struggle to survive - and a revelation of our place in a dangerous universe.
Sunstorm is the sequel to the acclaimed Time’s Eye. These two books have brought together two of the greatest talents of world SF.
'The concepts are big, hard and very clever' Guardian
‘A page-turner of a read. Another fine piece of work’ Dreamwatch
‘Gripping’ Starburst
‘An impressive level of skill’ Jon Courtenay Grimwood, SFX
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Time's Eye
A Time Odyssey: Book One
With Stephen Baxter
1885, the NW frontier. Young journalist Rudyard Kipling is witness to a bizarre encounter between the British army and a piece of impossibly advanced technology: a hovering sphere, mysteriously watchful. And then, shockingly, a helicopter from the year 2037 comes clattering over the hill.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, scouts from the great horde of Genghis Khan are puzzled to find that familiar landmarks on the great steppe have disappeared - as if they had never been.
And elsewhere again, the courtiers of Alexander the Great wait anxiously for news of the great King, who seems to have vanished.
Across human history, nothing is as it was. Kipling, the helicopter crew and other castaways in time must make an epic journey across a transformed world. It is a journey that will lead them to mystery, wonder and danger - and to a devastating truth. For if human history is long, our future may be shorter than any of us have dreamed.
Mankind’s odyssey in time has begun.
Time’s Eye brings together two of the greatest talents of world SF.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, is the world’s foremost science fiction writer and one of the great popularisers of science.
Stephen Baxter is perhaps the most significant SF writer of his generation.
They have collaborated once before on the epic novel The Light Of Other Days.
Time’s Eye spans countless centuries and carries cutting edge ideas on physics and alien intervention. It shows two of the genre’s masters at their groundbreaking best and is the first novel of A Time Odyssey.
'The adventure is rousing and I can't imagine anyone finishing this book and not wondering what comes next' New York Times
'You won't set the book down to eat or sleep or work if you can help it' Chicago Tribune
`Arthur C. Clarke is one of the few geniuses of our time’ Ray Bradbury
`Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision’ The Times Literary Supplement
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The Collected Stories
'One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age' - New Yorker
Arthur C. Clarke is without question the world's best-known and most celebrated science fiction writer. His career, which now spans more than sixty years, is one of unequalled success. Now, in this huge and definitive book, he has collected every science fiction story shorter than novel length which he has published: over 100 in all, arranged in order of publication, from 'Travel By Wire' in 1937 through to 'Improving the Neighbourhood' in 1999.
The complete contents of his seven published collections are here, plus all the stories he has written in the last two decades - since The Wind from the Sun appeared - and all his previously-uncollected fiction, including the original stories which later grew into such novels as Childhood's End, Earthlight and The Songs of Distant Earth.
Clarke has always been celebrated for his clear prophetic vision, which is fully on display in this book, but there are also many stories which show his imagination in full flight, to the almost inconceivably distant future, and to far-flung star systems.
As the year 2001 approaches - Clarke's year just as indelibly as 1984 was Orwell's - there could be no greater testament to his genius than this volume.
'Arthur C.Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our time' Ray Bradbury
‘Arthur C Clarke’s first book for the millennium is a mammoth, truly indispensable collection… Collected Stories is a capstone to one of the greatest careers in science fiction and easily earns any hyperbole that a reviewer may indulge in. the story of science fiction cannot be told without the stories that are gathered here. Truly essential’ Locus
‘There’s an incredible range of subject matter ... much remains fresh . . . It almost goes without saying that this is an essential addition to any enthusiast’s library.’ Time Out
‘Nearly one thousand pages of some of the best short fiction the field has ever seen. This is probably the most significant reprint collection of the year, and it certainly deserves to be in the library of anyone who considers himself or herself a fan’ Science Fiction Chronicle
‘The Sentinel’ . . . is just one of the endless delights in this astonishing volume. The Collected Stories also contains such classics as ‘The Songs of Distant Earth’ and the tale that many people regard as the greatest single SF short story ever written, ‘The Nine Billion Names of God’. Even if you have all these tales in individual volumes, this is a pretty tempting collection.’ Starburst
‘We get a good idea of Clarke’s development as a writer, his full range of tones from facetious or sardonic to poetic or visionary, and his success and failures as a commentator on man’s evolution. Many of the stories have dated surprisingly little, and some are still very effective.’ Times Literary Supplement
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The Space Trilogy
Arthur C. Clarke is without question the world’s best-known and most celebrated science fiction writer, with a sixty-year career of unparalleled success. Gathered together for the first time are three of his early novels, each displaying Clarke’s trademark clear prophetic vision.
The Sands of Mars A dedicated group of pioneers, amongst than some of Earth’s finest brains, struggle to change the face of the Red Planet…
Islands in the Sky Sixteen-year-old Roy Malcolm wins a TV Aviation Quiz; his prize is a trip to the Inner Station, orbiting Earth, but undreamed-of danger and excitement turn his greatest ambition into a nightmare …
Earthlight Man has colonised the planets, but the inhabitants of the Moon claim they owe no allegiance to any nation on Earth - or even to Earth itself…
Three different future worlds from the Master
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The Light of Other Days
In the most exciting sf collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool cosmic insights and page turning plotting skills to produce the most powerful novel of the future since 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Light Of Other Days tells of a time, not so far in the future, when the walls of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass.
‘Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?’
Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, is launching the greatest communications revolution in history. By manipulating wormholes in space, his WormCams can connect any point to any other, faster than the speed of light.
Realtime television coverage is here: earthquakes and wars, murders and disasters can be watched, exactly as they occur, anywhere on the planet. And that’s just the beginning!
The New Past
When WormCams are made to work across time as well as space, humanity encounters itself in the light of other days. We witness the life of Jesus, go to the premiere of Hamlet, solve the enigmas that have baffled generations.
Blood spilled centuries ago flows vividly once more.
And privacy, of course, is a thing of the past. No personal treachery or shame can be concealed.
Mutual Assured Surveillance
Fuming inwardly about decadent technology and excess wealth, journalist Kate Manzoni goes to work for Hiram, who has his own reasons for hiring her Hiram wants her close so that he can the more easily destroy her – to bring to an end her affair with Bobby Patterson, his son. Hiram seeks to keep his deadly schemes secret - but
even he, its creator, cannot anticipate the power of the all-seeing WormCam.
Stephen Baxter is a graduate of Cambridge and Southampton universities. He applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn’t make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and have won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.
‘A sweeping, mind-boggling read’ Booklist
‘Two titans of hard SF team up for a story of grand scientific and philosophical scope ... The large-scale implications addressed are impressive in this potent story’ Publishers Weekly
‘Arthur C. Clarke is one of the truly prophetic figures of the space age - the colossus of science fiction’ New Yorker
‘Arthur Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our time’ Ray Bradbury
‘Tom Clancy meets Tom Wolfe’ Kirkus Reviews on Stephen Baxter
‘Stephen Baxter is in the top league of world-spinners’ The Times
'Enjoyable, thought-provoking stuff with the balls to persue its speculations' Stan Nicholls, Time Out
'Not just good, but fun, capacious, and in parts brilliant' Guardian
About The Author
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Kt., CBE, was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England, to Charles W. Clarke, a farmer and lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and Nora Mary (Willis) Wright. He was married to Marilyn Mayfield in 1953 and divorced in 1964. A resident of Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1956, Sir Arthur received his CBE in 1989 and his knighthood (for services to literature) in 1998. In 1975, he was the fist noncitizen to receive Resident Guest status in Sri Lanka, where he is chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1979-). He is also chancellor of the International Space University (1989-).
The author of over eighty books and five hundred articles and short stories, Sir Arthur was educated at Huish Grammar School in Taunton (1927-36), and King's College, London, 1946-48 (B.Sc., first class, physics and mathematics). Before becoming a full-time writer, he was an auditor in H.M. Exchequer and Audit Department (1936-41) and served in the Royal Air Force (1941-46) as an instructor at the No. 9 Radio School and then flight lieutenant with MIT Radlab's ground-controlled approach radar. He originated the concept of the geosynchronous communications satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945, and the lunar mass-driver (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950). He was assistant editor of Physics Abstracts for the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1949-50, and chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, 1947-50 and 1953. From 1955 to 1965, Sir Arthur was involved in underwater exploration in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka.
From 1964 to 1968, Sir Arthur wrote, with film director Stanley Kubrick, the nove1 2001: A Space Odyssey, on which the film was based. This was followed by the book and film 2010 (1982), and the books 2061 (1988) and 3001 (1997). Other famous science fiction novels include Against the Fall of Night (1953), The Sands of Mars (1951), Childhood's End (1953), the four-part Rama series (1972-93), and The Hammer of God (1993), which Steven Spielberg optioned for the film Deep Impact. In 1952, his nonfiction work The Exploration of Space was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Arthur C. Clarke covered United States space missions and the Apollo Moon landings for CBS from 1957 to 1970. He wrote and hosted the television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, The World of Strange Powers, and Mysterious Universe in the 1980s and 1990s. He is an honorary vice president of the H. G. Wells Society, the honorary chairman of the Society of Satellite Professionals, president of the British Science Fiction Association, a life member of the British Science Writes, a board member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a trustee of the Spaceguard Foundation, as well as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Awards and honors include honorary fellows of the British Interplanetary Society, the American Astronautical Association, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Award, 1981; the IEE Centennial Medal, 1984; the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award, 1990; International Science Policy Foundation Medal, 1992; Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 1994; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 1995; Unesco Kalinga Prize, 1961; the von Karman Award, International Academy of Astronautics, Beijing, 1996; Oscar nomination, with Stanley Kubrick, for 2001 screenplay, 1969; Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986; and the Special Achievement Award, Space Explorers Association, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989.
Arthur C. Clarke's seventieth birthday, in December 1987, was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset; he was knighted in 1998 for his services to literature, shortly after his eightieth birthday, the first science fiction writer to be thus honoured.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Sunstorm: A Time Odyssey
(Gollancz,
2005)
Gollancz Pbk Apr 06
Time's Eye
(Gollancz,
2004)
Gollancz Pbk May 05
The Collected Stories
Short Stories
(Gollancz,
2001)
Gollancz Pbk Oct 01
The Space Trilogy
(Gollancz Pbk,
2001)
The Light of Other Days
(Voyager,
2000)
Voyager Pbk Jul 02
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
(Voyager,
2000)
Voyager Pbk Jul 00
Profiles of the Future
(Gollancz,
1999)
Indigo Pbk Dec 00
The Trigger
(Voyager,
1999)
Voyager Pbk Nov 00
Rama II
(Victor Gollancz,
1989)
Gollancz Pbk Jan 06
The Fountains of Paradise
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1979)
Gollancz Millenium Pbk Oct 00
Rendezvous with Rama
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1973)
Gollancz Pbk Apr 06
The Wind from the Sun
(Gollancz,
1972)
Gollancz Pbk Sep 03
2001 A Space Odyssey
(
1968)
Orbit Dec 00
Tales of Ten Worlds
(Gollancz,
1963)
Gollancz Pbk Sep 03
The Other Side of the Sky
Short Stories
(Gollancz,
1961)
Gollancz Pbk Jul 03
Reach for Tomorrow
Short Stories
(
1956)
Gollancz Pbk Oct 03
The City and the Stars
(
1956)
Gollancz Millenium Pbk Mar 01
The Deep Range
Gollancz Pbk Nov 05
A Fall of Moondust
Gollancz Millenium Pbk Mar 02
Sunstorm: A Time Odyssey
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