When
first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years:
Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child? What purpose lay behind the transformation? What would become of the Star-Child?
What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space?
What could drive HAL, a stable, intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared?
Would there be a sequel?
Now all those questions and many more have been answered. In this stunning sequel to his international bestseller, Clarke has written what will truly be one of the great books of the '80s. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in its depiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with the romance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement.

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.
So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.
But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...
One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S FAVORITE STORIES
THE NINE BILLION NAMES OF GOD -- A short-term course for computer the way to God.
TROUBLE WITH TIME -- Martian time proves that crimes doesn't pay!
NO MORNING AFTER -- Drink, drink and be merry, for tomorrow there will be no morning after...
THE POSSESSED -- Or, why the lemmings drowned.
ENCOUNTER AT DAWN -- The day the gods came to Earth.
THE SENTINEL -- The story which inspired 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY; when man sets off the galactic burglar alarm, who will answer the call?

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 an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits — just behind a Raman airlock door.

Of Time and Stars is a collection of short stories by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke.
The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications including the periodicals Dude, The Evening Standard, Lilliput, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Future, New Worlds, Startling Stories, Astounding, Fantasy, King's College Review, Satellite, Amazing Stories, London Evening News, Infinity Science Fiction and Ten Story Fantasy as well as the anthologies Star Science Fiction Stories No.1 edited by Frederik Pohl and Time to Come edited by August Derleth.

n 1968, Arthur C. Clarke’s best-selling 2001: A Space Odyssey captivated the world—and was adapted into a now-classic film by Stanley Kubrick. Fans had to wait fourteen years for the sequel—but when it came out, it was an instant hit, winning the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983.
Nine years after the ill-fated Discovery One mission to Jupiter, a joint Soviet-American crew travels to the planet to investigate the mysterious monolith orbiting the planet, the cause of the earlier mission’s failure—and the disappearance of David Bowman. The crew includes Heywood Floyd, the lone survivor from the previous mission, and Dr. Chandra, the creator of HAL.
What they find is no less than an unsettling alien conspiracy—surrounding the evolutionary fate of indigenous life forms on Jupiter’s moon Europa, as well as that of the human species itself. A gripping continuation of the beloved Odyssey universe, 2010: Odyssey II is science-fiction storytelling at its best.

When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artefact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the Discovery, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained--the best--and they are assisted by a self- aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL's programming has been patterned after the human mind a little too well. He is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and he controls every single one of Discovery's components. The crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous with the entities that are responsible not just for the monolith, but maybe even for human civilization. Clarke wrote this novel while Stanley Kubrick created the film, the two collaborating on both projects. The novel is much more detailed and intimate, and definitely easier to comprehend. Even though history has disproved its "predictions", it's still load Brooks Peck, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW 'Arthur C. Clarke is awesomely informed about physics and astronomy, and blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations...' NEW YORK TIMES 'For many readers Arthur C. Clarke is the very personification of science fiction'THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION Arthur C. Clarke is one of the truly prophetic figures of the space age ... The colossus of science fiction NEW YORKER

異星人の宇宙船が地球の主要都市上空に停滞してから五十年。その間、異星人は人類にその姿を見せることなく、見事に地球管理を行なった。だが、多くの謎があった。宇宙人の真の目的は？　人類の未来は?――巨匠が異星人とのファースト・コンタクトによって新たな道を歩みはじめる人類の姿を描きあげた傑作！

Description (From the Publisher):
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…
Table Of Contents
Part One Ancient Night
Chapter 1 The Road to Death
Chapter 2 The New Rock
Chapter 3 Education
Chapter 4 The Leopard
Chapter 5 Meeting at Dawn
Chapter 6 The Beginning of Man
Part Two TMA-1
Chapter 7 Special Flight
Chapter 8 Special Station 1
Chapter 9 Moon Ship
Chapter 10 Clavius Base
Chapter 11 Anomaly
Chapter 12 Journey by Earthlight
Chapter 13 The Slow Dawn
Chapter 14 The Listeners
Part Three Between Planets
Chapter 15 Discovery
Chapter 16 Hal
Chapter 17 Daily Life
Chapter 18 Through the Asteroids
Chapter 19 Passing Jupiter
Chapter 20 The World of the Gods
Part Four Edge of Darkness
Chapter 21 Birthday Party
Chapter 22 Leaving the Ship
Chapter 23 Sickness
Chapter 24 Breakdown
Chapter 25 First Man to Saturn
Chapter 26 Conversation with Hal
Chapter 27 Hal's Secret
Chapter 28 In Vacuum
Chapter 29 Alone
Chapter 30 The Secret
Part Five The Moons of Saturn
Chapter 31 Survival
Chapter 32 Life in Space
Chapter 33 Ambassador
Chapter 34 The Orbiting Ice
Chapter 35 The Eye of Japetus
Chapter 36 Big Brother
Chapter 37 Experiment
Chapter 38 The Watcher
Chapter 39 Into the Eye
Chapter 40 Exit
Part Six Through the Stargate
Chapter 41 Grand Central
Chapter 42 A Different Sky
Chapter 43 Fireball
Chapter 44 Reception
Chapter 45 Memories
Chapter 46 Star-Child
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一块跨越300万年历史的神秘石板，从300万年前促使猿人向人类进化，到现在指引人类驶向太空的更深处。
一场跨越地球到土星十亿公里的太空之旅，人类跟随更高级文明的指引，试图找到太空和自身的答案。
人类文明究竟是自然演化，还是更高级文明的一场实验？宇宙文明演化的终点又在哪里？在《2001：太空漫游》里，阿瑟·克拉克给了我们一个终极而恢宏的答案。

In this collection of essays, Arthur C. Clarke offers an excursion into what the future may hold.

From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his generation, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass.

When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting-edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times—around every corner, through every wall—the result is the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy, forever. Then the same technology proves able to look backward in time as well. The Light of Other Days is a story that will change your view of what it is to be human.


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The 10-billion-year-old metropolis of Diaspar is humanity's last home. Alone among immortals, the only man born in 10 million years desperately wants to find what lies beyond the City. His quest will uncover the destiny of a people-and a galaxy. This book also includes the classic short story 'Jupiter V'.

During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization.

In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: “A first-rate tour de force” (The New York Times).
 
In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind’s largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly benevolent: end war, poverty, and cruelty. Their presence, rather than signaling the end of humanity, ushers in a golden age . . . or so it seems.
 
Without conflict, human culture and progress stagnate. As the years pass, it becomes clear that the Overlords have a hidden agenda for the evolution of the human race that may not be as benevolent as it seems.
 
“Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master.” —Los Angeles Times

From outside it was simply an ordinary-looking London pub, a place you'd have to be guided to more than once before you memorized its location, somewhere between Fleet Street and the Embankment. But if, by chance, an insider led you to the White Hart on a Wednesday night, you would have found yourself in the midst of a select gathering or writers, editors, scientists and interested laymen—drinking, swapping odd bits of information, and, like as not, listening to Harry Purvis' memorable stories.
A scientist by profession, Harry Purvis has had or heard about some of the most astonishing experiences—like the story of the carnivorous orchid that was used in a murder plot, or the one about the military computer that was converted to pacifism. There's SILENCE PLEASE, involving a spurned lover and a device that was supposed to destroy sound; and BIG GAME HUNT, in which an ambitious researcher becomes so wrapped up in his latest projest—controlling animal behavior with electrical impulses— that he overlooks one tiny important detail. Such stories may challenge your powers of logic and strain your imagination. Yet even if you doubt their veracity, they're guaranteed to provide you with hours of SF reading. Baron Munchausen, step aside.

Contains: Silence Please; Big Game Hunt; Patent Pending; Armaments Race; Critical Mass; The Ultimate Melody; The Pacifist; The Next Tenants; Moving Spirit; The Man Who Ploughed the Sea; The Reluctant Orchid; Cold War; What Goes Up; Sleeping Beauty & The Defenestration of Ermintrude

When a team of scientists is trapped in the gaseous inferno of Venus, Sparta must risk her life to save them, unaware that her actions will help recover a mysterious artifact: irrefutable evidence of life on another planet. As the secrets of the artifact are revealed, Sparta uncovers a mystery that may lead her to the truth about her own identity.

"WHAT SF SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT." -- Kliatt Rob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why "The King of Space" had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever -- even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power... Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President of the American Astronautical Society, about an idea whose time has a shimmering bridge between Earth and space that mankind will climb to the stars! Sound like fantasy? The concept has been in the literature of physics for over three decades, but only a writer with the scientific background of a Sheffield or a Clarke could bring the idea to life.