Reach for Tomorrow The twelve tales in this collection, which include `Rescue Party’, his first published short story, display the unique blend of scientific realism and soaring visionary imagination that have made Arthur C. Clarke the world’s best-loved writer of science fiction. `One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age’ New Yorker
‘Here is the rich variety we have come to expect from the master. Worth grabbing’ Kingsley Amis
‘Mr Clarke skilfully fits his heady fantasies into a human context. First class’ Evening Standard
‘Clarke’s stories have an inevitable sting in their tales’ Times Literary Supplement
Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2001)
The City and the Stars There had been cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shot out the creeping decay and danger of the world outside. Once, it had held powers that ruled the stars; but then, the legends said, the Invaders came, driving humanity into this last refuge.
This is Arthur Clarke’s masterly vision of the far distant future, millions of years after our civilization has vanished into dust. ‘Hauntingly effective ... a beautifully conceived, unforgettable future world’ Robert Silverberg
‘One of the most imaginative novels of the very far future ever written’ Sunday Times
‘One of the major achievements of the SF field’ Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Paperback - Gollancz (2005)
The Deep Range Since the beginning of time the sea has worked its will on humanity, and for as long, man has struggled against its awesome power. But in the 21st century man believed the battle finally won: the sea, mankind’s age-old enemy, had finally been conquered.
Professionals like Walter Franklin now patrolled the infinite savannahs of the oceans, harvesting from the plankton prairies a crop which fed the world. But like that other great frontier, space, the sea had still not yet yielded up all its secrets. And men like Franklin
would never rest until its every fathomless mystery had been challenged ... 'Vivid, beautiful and exciting. Brings the future to life before your eyes' Sunday Times
‘One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age’ New Yorker
‘Enough crises to keep you reading avidly’ Sunday Times
`Arthur C. Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our times’ Ray Bradbury
Paperback - Gollancz Millenium (2002)
A Fall of Moondust Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist-cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust while, on the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, A Fall of Moondust is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension.
Sf Masterworks is a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of today’s leading SF writers and editors. These books show that genuinely innovative SF is as exciting today as when it was first written.
‘An amazing list - genuinely the best novels from sixty years of SF’ Iain M. Banks ‘The best book yet about man’s most dramatic journey, the most exciting science fiction novel for years’ Evening Standard
‘Expertly told and cruelly exciting to the end’ Sunday Times
‘Extremely good . . . with some superbly ingenious and exciting new twists’ Daily Express
Reach for Tomorrow
The City and the Stars