In 'Childhood's End', silent spacecraft take the light from the world, superintelligent aliens rule with wisdom not force, a new era of invention and prosperity brings hope and peace. The twilight of the human race has begun.

'The best book yet about man's most dramatic journey, the most exciting science fiction novel for years' Evening Standard

The sequel to the only SF novel to sweep all SF awards and one of the bestsellers of all time

'Quite memorable and at times magical... We glimpse our own future in this technological artifact - a future as magical as it is mysterious' Brian W. Aldiss

This epic tale of altered histories and different earths sees a universe where Alexander's empire prompted a different past, a world where strange alien 'eyes' gaze upon a fractured reality, a time when man is looking to colonise the red planet.

Contemporary / British English 2001: A Space Odyssey a great film and a famous novel. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out a billion kilometres to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them

The definitive collection of short stories from the century's greatest science fiction writer.

One of Clarke's most famous and acclaimed novels, winner of both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award

Islands in the Sky, first published in 1954, sees Roy Malcolm win a trip to the Inner Station, a space station rotating 500 miles from Earth. The Sands of Mars, set in the 21st century, has a group of pioneers struggling to change the face of this inhospitable planet. Earthlight is set in a human colony on the moon. This omnibus edition of Arthur C. Clarke's early novels shows the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey exploring space and time in adventurous and thoughtful ways. Although the course of recent history has been different, these novels offer a glimpse of what-might-have-been, as...