Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! A Vision of the 20th Century As It
Happened
1999
Library edition: 1999, 1st edition, 1st printing
Voyager
ISBN 0-00-224697-X
Hardcover, xxviii+558 pages
£19.99
Notes:
• Acknowledgements, Preface and Introductions (Parts I-VI) by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Edited by Ian T. Macauley with short introductory notes to each essay.
• Essays 'Sources', 'Index', 'About the Author' and 'About the Editor' are uncredited.
Essays: Introduction (Part I) // Dunsany, Lord of Fantasy // Rockets // The Coming Age of Rocket Power //
Extraterrestrial Relays // The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth // The Challenge of the Spaceship // First Men in the Moon
// The Problem of Dr. Campbell // The Lackeys of Wall Street // Voyages to the Moon // You're on the Glide Path, I
Think // Morphological Astronomy // The Conquest of Space
Introduction (Part II) // The Effect of Interplanetary Flight // Space Travel in Fact and Fiction // Review: Destination
Moon // Interplanetary Flight // The Exploration of Space // Review: When Worlds Collide // Review: Man on the
Moon // Flying Saucers // Review: Flying Saucers Have Landed // Undersea Holiday // The Exploration of the
Moon // Eclipse // Astronautical Fallacies // The Star of Bethlehem // Capricorn to Cancer // Keeping House in
Colombo // The Reefcombers' Derby // Rest Houses, Catamarans, and Sharks // The First Wreck // A Clear Run to
the South Pole // The Isle of Taprobane // The Great Reef // Winding Up
Introduction (Part III) // Failures of Nerve and Imagination // We'll Never Conquer Space // Rocket to the
Renaissance // The Obsolescence of Man // Space and the Spirit of Man // The Uses of the Moon // The Playing
Fields of Space // Kalinga Prize Speech // More Than Five Senses // Son of Dr. Strangelove // Possible, That's All!
// The Mind of the Machine // God and Einstein
Introduction (Part IV) // Satellites and Saris // Mars and the Mind of Man // The Sea of Sinbad // Willy and Chesley
// The Snows of Olympus // Writing to Sell
Introduction (Part V) // The Steam-Powered Word Processor // Afterword: "Maelstrom II" // Mother Nature Got There
First // Message to Comsat, February 18, 1988 // Graduation Address: International Space University // Back to
2001 // Coauthors and Other Nuisances // The Power of Compression // Live in the Fax Lane // Credo // The
Colors of Infinity: Exploring the Fractal Universe // Close Encounter with Cosmonauts // The Century Syndrome //
Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf? // My Four Feet on the Ground
Introduction (Part VI) // Marconi Symposium // Introduction to Charlie Pellegrino's Unearthing Atlantis // Tribute to
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) // Satyajit and Stanley // Aspects of Science Fiction // Save the Giant Squid! // A
Choice of Futures // Gene Roddenberry // Jack Williamson's Beachhead // Scenario for a Civilized Planet // NASA
Sutra: Eros in Orbit // Minehead Made Me // Good-bye, Isaac // Encyclical // Letter from Sri Lanka // Message to
Mars // Preface: The War of the Worlds // Preface: The First Men in the Moon // The Joy of Maths // Tribute to
Robert Bloch // Spaceguard // Foreword: Encyclopedia of Frauds by James Randi // Bucky // Homage to Frank
Paul // Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! // The Birth of HAL // The Coming of Cyberclysm // Tribute to David
Lasser // Toilets of the Gods // When Will the Real Space Age Begin? // Review: Imagined Worlds by Freeman
Dyson // Eyes on the Universe // Walter Alvarez and Gerrit L. Verschuur // The Gay Warlords // More Last Words
on UFOs // Carl Sagan // For Cherene, Tamara, and Melinda // Science and Society // Is There Life After
Television? // The Twenty-First Century: A (Very) Brief History
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
Library edition: December 2000, 1st printing
Orbit
ISBN 1-84149-055-5
Hardcover, xxviii+252 pages
£12.99
Notes:
• 'A Space Odyssey' series #1.
• Introduction by Stephen Baxter, 'To Stanley: In Memoriam' essay by Arthur C. Clarke.
Arthur C. Clarke
Legal name: Clarke, Arthur Charles
Birth place: Minehead, Somerset, England, UK
Birth date: 16 December 1917
Death date: 19 March 2008
Language: English
Bibliographic comments: See also under general speculative fiction anthologies. Only Clarke's genre-related titles are
indexed here; a complete list of non-genre and non-fiction titles is found at the ISFDB. Of Clarke's co-authors, only Frederik
Pohl is indexed here.
Biographic comments: Awarded the Kalinga Prize in 1961. Resident guest status in Sri Lanka awarded in 1975; the Sri
Lankabhimanya (Sri Lanka's highest civil honour) awarded in 2005. In the UK, awarded the CBE in 1989 and knighted in
1998.
Novels
Imperial Earth: A Fantasy of Love and Discord
1975
Library edition: September 1975, 1st edition, 1st printing
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-02011-3
Hardcover, 287 pages
£3.50
Notes:
The Last Theorem
with Frederik Pohl
2008
Library edition: August 2008, 1st edition, 1st printing
HarperVoyager
ISBN 978-0-00-728998-1
Hardcover, xii+299 pages
£18.99
Notes:
• Features a near-future Sri Lankan mathematician who solves Fermat's Last Theorem at a time of alien contact.
• Novel begun by Clarke but completed by Pohl.
The Collected Stories
2000
Library edition: January 2000, 1st edition, 1st printing
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-07065-X
Hardcover, x+966 pages
£20.00
Notes:
Fiction: Travel By Wire! // How We Went to Mars // Retreat From Earth // Reverie // The Awakening // Whacky //
Loophole // Rescue Party // Technical Error // Castaway // The Fires Within // Inheritance // History Lesson //
Transience // The Wall of Darkness // The Lion of Comarre // The Forgotten Enemy // Hide-and-Seek // Breaking
Strain // Nemesis // Guardian Angel // Time's Arrow // A Walk in the Dark // Silence Please // Trouble with the
Natives // The Road to the Sea // The Sentinel // Holiday on the Moon // Second Dawn // Superiority // "If I
Forget Thee, Oh Earth..." // All the Time in the World // The Nine Billion Names of God // The Possessed // The
Parasite // Jupiter Five // Encounter in the Dawn // The Other Tiger // Publicity Campaign // Armaments Race //
The Deep Range // No Morning After // Big Game Hunt // Patent Pending // Refugee // The Star // What Goes
Up // Venture to the Moon // The Pacifist // The Reluctant Orchid // Moving Spirit // The Defenestration of
Ermintrude Inch // The Ultimate Melody // The Next Tenants // Cold War // Sleeping Beauty // Security Check //
The Man Who Ploughed the Sea // Critical Mass // The Other Side of the Sky // Let There Be Light // Out of the
Sun // Cosmic Casanova // The Songs of Distant Earth // A Slight Case of Sunstroke // Who's There? // Out of
the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting... // I Remember Babylon // Trouble with Time // Into the Comet // Summertime on
Icarus // Saturn Rising // Death and the Senator // Before Eden // Hate // Love That Universe // Dog Star //
Maelstrom // An Ape About the House // The Shining Ones // The Secret // Dial F for Frankenstein // The Wind
from the Sun // The Food of the Gods // The Last Command // The Light of Darkness // The Longest Science-
Fiction Story Ever Told // Playback // The Cruel Sky // Crusade // Neutron Tide // Reunion // Transit of Earth //
A Meeting with Medusa // Quarantine // siseneG // The Steam-Powered Word Processor // On Golden Seas //
The Hammer of God // The Wire Continuum // Improving the Neighbourhood
Essay: Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq.
Collections
Childhood’s End
1953
Library edition: October 2001, SF Masterworks hardcover edition, 1st printing
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-07263-6
Hardcover, 208 pages
£9.99
Notes:
Across the Sea of Stars
1959
< 1959, 1st edition
Harcourt, Brace & Company
No ISBN
Hardcover, 584 pages
$3.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Clifton Fadiman.
• Omnibus edition of Childhhod's End (1953) and Earthlight (1955), plus eighteen short stories.
Short fiction: The Sentinel // Inheritance // Encounter at Dawn // Superiority // Hide and Seek // History Lesson //
"If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..." // Breaking Strain // Silence, Please! // Armaments Race // The Pacifist // The Next
Tenants // The Reluctant Orchid // Rescue Party // Technical Error // The Fires Within // Time's Arrow // Jupiter
Five
Omnibus editions
Rama II
with Gentry Lee
1989
Library edition: November 1989, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-04545-0
Hardcover, 377 pages
£12.95
Notes:
• 'Rama' series #2.
• Afterword by Arthur C. Clarke.
The Space Trilogy
2001
Library edition: May 2001, 1st edition, 1st printing
Gollancz
ISBN 1-85798-780-2
B-format paperback, xii+506 pages
£7.99
Notes:
• Omnibus edition of the novels Islands in the Sky (1951), The Sands of Mars (1952) and Earthlight (1955).
• Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke, Introduction to The Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke, Foreword to The Sands of
Mars by Donna Shirley.
The Garden of Rama
with Gentry Lee
1991
Library edition: September 1991, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-05169-8
Hardcover, 398 pages
£14.99
Notes:
• 'Rama' series #3.
Rama Revealed
with Gentry Lee
1993
Library edition: November 1993, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-05577-4
Hardcover, 477 pages
£15.99
Notes:
• 'Rama' series #4.
2010: Odyssey Two
1982
Library edition: 1982, 1st edition, 1st printing
Granada
ISBN 0-246-11912-8
Hardcover, xiv+216
£7.95
Notes:
• 'A Space Odyssey' series #2.
Rendezvous with Rama
1973
Library edition: June 1973, 1st edition, 1st printing
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-01587-X
Hardcover, 256 pages
£2.00
Notes:
• 'Rama' series #1.
• Winner of the 1973 BSFA Award, 1974 Campbell Memorial Award, 1974 Hugo Award, 1974 Locus Award, 1974
Nebula Award for Best Novel, 1980 Seiun Award for Best Translated Novel.
2061: Odyssey Three
1988
Library edition: January 1988, 1st edition
Grafton
ISBN 0-246-13323-6
Hardcover, 254 pages
£10.95
Notes:
• 'A Space Odyssey' series #3.
• Author's Note by Arthur C. Clarke.
3001: The Final Odyssey
1997
Library edition: March 1997, 1st edition, 1st printing
Voyager
ISBN 0-246-12689-2
Hardcover, 273 pages
£16.99
Notes:
• 'A Space Odyssey' series #4.
• Essays 'Sources and Acknowledgements' and 'Valediction' by Arthur C. Clarke.
The City and the Stars
1956
< March 2001, SF Masterworks (II) edition
Gollancz
ISBN 978-1-85798-763-8
B-format paperback, 255 pages
£7.99
Notes:
A Fall of Moondust
1961
Library edition: September 1961, 1st edition
Gollancz
No ISBN
Hardcover, 224 pages
16/-
Notes:
The Fountains of Paradise
1979
Library edition: January 1979, 1st edition, 1st printing
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-02520-4
Hardcover, 255 pages
£4.95
Notes:
• Set on the fictional island of Taprobane in the Indian Ocean.
• Winner of the 1980 Hugo Award and the 1980 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
The Songs of Distant Earth
1986
Library edition: May 1986, 1st edition, 1st printing
Del Rey
ISBN 0-345-33219-9
Hardcover, 256 pages
$17.95
Notes:
• Author's Note by Arthur C. Clarke.
Cradle
with Gentry Lee
1988
Library edition: June 1988, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-04164-1
Hardcover, 309 pages
£11.95
Notes:
The Ghost from the Grand Banks
1990
Library edition: October 1990, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-04906-5
Hardcover, 293 pages
£12.95
Notes:
• Essays 'Sources and Acknowledgements' and 'Appendix: The Colours of Infinity' by Arthur C. Clarke.
Richter 10
with Mike McQuay
1996
Library edition: February 1996, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-06116-2
Hardcover, 341 pages
£15.99
Notes:
The Trigger
with Michael Kube-McDowell
1999
Library edition: November 1999, 1st edition
Voyager / HarperCollins
ISBN 0-00-224711-9
Hardcover, 550 pages
£17.99
Notes:
The Light of Other Days
with Stephen Baxter
2000
Library edition: September 2000, 1st UK edition
Voyager / HarperCollins
ISBN 0-00-224704-6
Hardcover, 312 pages
£17.99
Notes:
• Afterword by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke.
Time’s Eye
with Stephen Baxter
2004
Library edition: January 2004, 1st edition
Del Rey / Ballantine
ISBN 0-345-45248-8
Hardcover, 312 pages
$26.95
Notes:
• 'A Time Odyssey' series #1.
• A CD-ROM is included in the back of the book, which includes essays, authors interviews and two complete novels,
Manifold: Time and Manifold: Evolution by Stephen Baxter.
Sunstorm
with Stephen Baxter
2005
Library edition: March 2005, 1st edition
Del Rey / Ballantine
ISBN 0-345-45250-X
Hardcover, 328 pages
$25.95
Notes:
• 'A Time Odyssey' series #2.
• Afterword by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke.
Firstborn
with Stephen Baxter
2008
Library edition: January 2008, 1st edition
Del Rey / Ballantine
ISBN 978-0-345-49157-2
Hardcover, 364 pages
$25.95
Notes:
• 'A Time Odyssey' series #3.
• Afterword by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke.
Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography
1989
Library edition: May 1989, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-04446-2
Hardcover, 224 pages
£12.99
Notes:
Non-fiction
The Snows of Olympus: A Garden on Mars
1994
Library edition: November 1994, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-05652-5
Hardcover, 120 pages
£18.99
Notes:
• Prologue and Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.
Prelude to Space
1951
< September 2011 edition
Gollancz
ISBN 978-0-575-12181-2
Digital
4.99
Notes:
The Deep Range
1957
< November 2005 edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-07711-5
Paperback, 224 pages
£6.99
Notes:
• Preface by Arthur C. Clarke.
Expedition to Earth
1953
< December 1953 edition
Ballantine
No ISBN
Paperback, 165 pages
$0.35
Notes:
Fiction: Second Dawn // "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..." // Breaking Strain // Expedition to Earth // Superiority //
Nemesis // Hide and Seek // Encounter in the Dawn // Loophole // Inheritance // The Sentinel
The Sands of Mars
1951
< January 2019, Golden Age Masterworks edition
Gollancz
ISBN 978-1-4732-2236-6
B-format paperback, x+225 pages
£8.99
Notes:
• Introduction by Stephen Baxter.
Islands in the Sky
1952
< 1972 edition
Puffin
ISBN 0-14-030535-1
Paperback, 208 pages
£0.25
Notes:
• Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.
Earthlight
1955
< February 2019, Golden Age Masterworks edition
Gollancz
ISBN 978-1-4732-2237-3
B-format paperback, viii+177 pages
£8.99
Notes:
• Introduction by Stephen Baxter.
Dolphin Island
1963
< September 2011 edition
Gollancz
ISBN 978-0-575-12177-5
Digital
£2.99
Notes:
The Hammer of God
1993
< June 1993, 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-05616-9
Hardcover, 205 pages
£14.99
Notes:
Against the Fall of Night
1953
< January 2019, Golden Age Masterworks edition
Gollancz
ISBN 978-1-4732-2236-6
B-format paperback, x+225 pages
£8.99
Notes:
• Introduction by Stephen Baxter.
Reach for Tomorrow
1956
< September 1996 edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-60046-2
Paperback, x+166 pages
£4.99
Notes:
• Introduction and Preface by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fiction: Rescue Party // A Walk in the Dark // The Forgotten Enemy // Technical Error // The Parasite // The Fires
Within // The Awakening // Trouble with the Natives // The Curse // Time's Arrow // Jupiter Five // The
Possessed
Tales from the White Hart
1957
< January 2007 edition
PS Publishing
ISBN 978-1-905834-77-8
Hardcover, xi+208 pages
£20.00
Notes:
• Introduction by Stephen Baxter, 'Preface to the 1969 Edition' by Arthur C. Clarke.
• 'Time Gentlemen Please' by Baxter and Clarke is unique to this edition.
Fiction: 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 Inch // Stephen
Baxter, Arthur C. Clarke, Time Gentlemen Please
The Other Side of the Sky
1958
< July 2003 edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-03988-4
Paperback, x+245 pages
£6.99
Notes:
• Bibliographical Note by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fiction: The Nine Billion Names of God // Refugee // Special Delivery // Feathered Friend // Take a Deep Breath
// Freedom of Space // Passer-By // The Call of the Stars // The Wall of Darkness // Security Check // No
Morning After // The Starting Line // Venture to the Moon // Robin Hood, F. R. S // Green Fingers // All That
Glitters // Watch This Space // A Question of Residence // Publicity Campaign // All the Time in the World //
Cosmic Casanova // The Star // Out of the Sun // Transience // The Songs of Distant Earth
Tales of Ten Worlds
1962
< September 2003 edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-07496-5
Paperback, 245 pages
£5.99
Notes:
Fiction: I Remember Babylon // Summertime on Icarus // Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting... // Who's There?
// Hate // Into the Comet // An Ape About the House // Saturn Rising // Let There Be Light // Death and the
Senator // Trouble with Time // Before Eden // A Slight Case of Sunstroke // Dog Star // The Road to the Sea
The Lost Worlds of 2001
1972
< 1972, 1st edition
Sidgwick & Jackson
ISBN 0-283-97903-8
Hardcover, 240 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
• Foreword and Epilogue by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fiction: View from the Year 2000 // The Sentinel // The Lost Worlds of 2001 (Part 1) // The Lost Worlds of 2001
(Part 2) // The Lost Worlds of 2001 (Part 3) // Reunion // The Lost Worlds of 2001 (Part 4)
Essays: Son of Dr. Strangelove // Christmas, Shepperton // Monoliths and Manuscripts // The Dawn of Man // The
Birth of HAL // Mission to Jupiter // The Worlds of the Star Gate
The Wind from the Sun
1972
< September 2003 edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-60052-7
Paperback, x+193 pages
£5.99
Notes:
• Preface by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fiction: The Food of the Gods // Maelstrom II // The Shining Ones // The Wind from the Sun // The Secret // The
Last Command // Dial "F" for Frankenstein // Reunion // Playback // The Light of Darkness // The Longest
Science-Fiction Story Ever Told // Love That Universe // Crusade // The Cruel Sky // Neutron Tide // Transit of
Earth // A Meeting with Medusa
Essay: Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq.
Of Time and Stars
1972
< 1980 edition
Puffin
ISBN 0-14-030703-6
Paperback, 205 pages
£0.90
Notes:
• Introduction by J. B.Priestley, Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fiction: The Nine Billion Names of God // An Ape About the House // Green Fingers // Trouble with the Natives //
Into the Comet // No Morning After // "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..." // Who's There? // All the Time in the World //
Hide and Seek // Robin Hood, F. R. S. // The Fires Within // The Forgotten Enemy // The Reluctant Orchid //
Encounter at Dawn // Security Check // Feathered Friend // The Sentinel
The Nine Billion Names of God
1967
< 1967, 1st edition
Harcourt, Brace & World
No ISBN
Hardcover, 277 pages
$4.75
Notes:
• Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fiction: The Nine Billion Names of God // I Remember Babylon // Trouble with Time // Rescue Party // The Curse
// Summertime on Icarus // Dog Star // Hide and Seek // Out of the Sun // The Wall of Darkness // No Morning
After // The Possessed // Death and the Senator // Who's There? // Before Eden // Superiority // A Walk in the
Dark // The Call of the Stars // The Reluctant Orchid // Encounter at Dawn // "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..." //
Patent Pending // The Sentinel // Transience // The Star
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1971
1973
< 1973, 1st edition
Sphere
ISBN 0-7221-2426-0
Paperback, 336 pages
£0.40
Notes:
• Introduction '1933: A Science -Fiction Odyssey' by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fiction: Travel by Wire! // Retreat from Earth // The Awakening // Whacky // Castaway // History Lesson // Hide
and Seek // Second Dawn // The Sentinel // The Star // Refugee // The Starting Line // Venture to the Moon //
Robin Hood, F. R. S. // Green Fingers // All That Glitters // Watch This Space // A Question of Residence // Into
the Comet // Summertime on Icarus // Death and the Senator // Hate // Sunjammer // A Meeting with Medusa
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1937-1955
1976
< 1976, 1st edition
Sphere
ISBN 0-7221-2410-4
Paperback, 152 pages
£0.65
Notes:
• Edited by Angus Wells.
• Introduction '1933: A Science -Fiction Odyssey' by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fiction: Travel by Wire! // Retreat from Earth // The Awakening // Whacky // Castaway // History Lesson //
Second Dawn // The Sentinel // The Star // Refugee
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke 1956-1972
1977
< 1977, 1st edition
Sphere
ISBN 0-7221-2454-6
Paperback, 200 pages
£0.75
Notes:
• Edited by Angus Wells.
• Introduction '1933: A Science -Fiction Odyssey' by Arthur C. Clarke.
Fiction: Venture to the Moon // Into the Comet // Summertime on Icarus // Death and the Senator
// Hate // Sunjammer // A Meeting with Medusa
The Sentinel
1983
< September 2009 edition
Sphere
ISBN 0-586-21204-3
Paperback, 319 pages
£5.99
Notes:
• Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Each story is preceded by a Note titled "Note on...".
Fiction: Rescue Party // Guardian Angel // Breaking Strain // The Sentinel // Jupiter V // Refugee // The Wind
from the Sun // A Meeting with Medusa // The Songs of Distant Earth
Tales from Planet Earth
1989
< November 1989, 1st edition
Legend
ISBN 0-7126-3480-0
Hardcover, iii+313 pages
£12.95
Notes:
• Preface and Preface Addendum by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Each story is preceded by a Note titled "Note on...".
Fiction: The Road to the Sea // Hate // Publicity Campaign // The Other Tiger // The Deep Range // "If I Forget
Thee, Oh Earth..." // The Cruel Sky // The Parasite // The Next Tenants // Saturn Rising // The Man Who
Ploughed the Sea // The Wall of Darkness // Death and the Senator // Maelstrom II // Second Dawn // On Golden
Seas
More Than One Universe
1991
< September 1991, 1st edition
Bantam Spectra
ISBN 0-553-29189-0
Paperback, 554 pages
$4.99
Notes:
Fiction: I Remember Babylon // Summertime on Icarus // Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting... // Who's There? //
Into the Comet // An Ape About the House // Let There Be Light // Death and the Senator // Trouble with Time //
Before Eden // A Slight Case of Sunstroke // Dog Star // The Nine Billion Names of God // Refugee // Special
Delivery // Feathered Friend // Take a Deep Breath // Freedom of Space // Passer-By // The Call of the Stars //
Security Check // No Morning After // The Starting Line // Robin Hood, F. R. S. // Green Fingers // All That Glitters
// Watch This Space // A Question of Residence // All the Time in the World // Cosmic Casanova // The Star //
Out of the Sun // Transience // The Songs of Distant Earth // The Food of the Gods // Maelstrom II // The Shining
Ones // The Wind from the Sun // The Secret // The Last Command // Dial F for Frankenstein // Reunion //
Playback // The Light of Darkness // The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told // Love That Universe // Crusade
// Neutron Tide // Transit of Earth // A Meeting with Medusa // When the Twerms Came // Quarantine // siseneG
// Rescue Party // The Curse // Hide and Seek // The Possessed // Superiority // A Walk in the Dark // The
Reluctant Orchid // Encounter at Dawn // Patent Pending // The Sentinel
Essay: Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq.
Against the Fall of Night / Beyond the Fall of Night
with Gregory Benford
1991
Library edition: April 1991, 1st edition, 1st printing
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-04765-8
Hardcover, x+966 pages
£13.99
Notes:
• Omnibus edition of Clarke's Against the Fall of Night (1953) and Benford's Beyond the Fall of Night (1990).
From the Ocean, from the Stars
1961
< November 1961, 1st edition
Harcourt, Brace & World
No ISBN
Hardcover, 515 pages
$4.50
Notes:
• Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Omnibus edition of The Deep Range (1957) and The City and the Stars (1956), plus twenty-four short stories.
Short fiction: The Other Side of the Sky // The Nine Billion Names of God // Refugee // Special Delivery //
Feathered Friend // Take a Deep Breath // Freedom of Space // Passer-By // The Call of the Stars // The Wall of
Darkness // Security Check // No Morning After // Venture to the Moon // The Starting Line // Robin Hood, F. R. S.
// Green Fingers // All That Glitters // Watch This Space // A Question of Residence // Publicity Campaign // All
the Time in the World // Cosmic Casanova // The Star // Out of the Sun // Transience // The Songs of Distant
Earth
An Arthur C. Clarke Omnibus
1965
< 1965, 1st edition
Harcourt, Brace & World
No ISBN
Hardcover, 515 pages
$4.50
Notes:
• Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Omnibus edition of Childhood's End (1953) and Prelude to Space (1951), plus ten short stories.
Short fiction: Superiority // Loophole // Expedition to Earth // History Lesson // Hide and Seek // Breaking Strain
// Exile of the Eons // "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..." // Inheritance // Second Dawn
Prelude to Mars
1965
< July 1974 edition
Harcourt, Brace & World
No ISBN
Hardcover, 497 pages
$1.69
Notes:
• Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Omnibus edition of Prelude to Space (1951) and Sands of Mars (1951), plus sixteen short stories.
Short fiction: Big Game Hunt // Critical Mass // The Ultimate Melody // Moving Spirit // The Man Who Ploughed the
Sea // Cold War // What Goes Up // Trouble with the Natives // A Walk in the Dark // The Forgotten Enemy // The
Parasite // The Curse // The Possessed // The Awakening // Exile of the Eons // Second Dawn
An Arthur C. Clarke Second Omnibus
1968
< 1968 1st edition
Sidgwick & Jackson
ISBN 0-283-98050-8
Hardcover, 224+158+219 pages
30/-
Notes:
• Omnibus edition of A Fall of Moondust (1961), Earthlight (1955) and Sands of Mars (1951).
The Lion of Comarre / Against the Fall of Night
1968
Library edition: 1970 1st UK edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-00528-9
Hardcover, x+214 pages
28/-
Notes:
• Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Omnibus edition of The Lion of Comarre (1949) and Against the Fall of Night (1953).
Four Great SF Novels
1978
< May 1978 1st edition
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-02409-7
Hardcover, 615 pages
£5.95
Notes:
• Omnibus edition of The City and the Stars (1956), The Deep Range (1957), A Fall of Moondust (1961) and
Rendezvous with Rama (1973).
2001: A Space Odyssey / The City and the Stars / The Deep Range /
A Fall of Moondust / Rendezvous with Rama
1985
< 1985, 1st edition
Heinemann / Octopus
ISBN 0-905712-82-X
Hardcover, 747 pages
£9.95
Notes:
• Omnibus edition of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The City and the Stars (1956), The Deep Range (1957), A Fall
of Moondust (1961) and Rendezvous with Rama (1973).
The City and the Stars / The Sands of Mars
2001
< September 2001, 1st edition
Aspect / Warner Books
ISBN 0-446-67796-5
Trade paperback, 529 pages
$14.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Omnibus edition of The City and the Stars (1956) and The Sands of Mars (1951).
Clarke’s Universe
2006
< January 2006, 1st edition
ibooks
ISBN 0-446-67796-5
Trade paperback, 343 pages
$12.95
Notes:
• Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Omnibus edition of 'The Lion of Comarre' (1949), A Fall of Moondust (1961) and 'Jupiter V' (1953).
The Ghost from the Grand Banks / The Deep Range
2001
< September 2001, 1st edition
Aspect / Warner Books
ISBN 0-446-67795-7
Trade paperback, 490 pages
$14.95
Notes:
• Introductions to each novel and essay 'Appendix: The Colours of Infinity' by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Omnibus edition of The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990) and The Deep Range (1957).
3001: The Final Odyssey / The Songs of Distant Earth
2004
< 2004, 1st edition
Harper Collins
ISBN 0-00-771208-1
Trade paperback, vii+273+xiv+238 pages
£8.99
Notes:
• Omnibus edition of 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997) and The Songs of Distant Earth (1986).
2001: A Space Odyssey
1990
< July 1990, 1st edition
Legend
ISBN 0-586-21204-3
Paperback, 319 pages
£5.99
Notes:
• Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, essay 'Back to 2001' by Arthur C. Clarke.
• Contains the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey and related works of short fiction.
Short fiction: The Sentinel // Encounter in the Dawn
Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
1962 / 1999
Library edition: November 1999, 1st edition, 1st printing
Gollancz
ISBN 0-575-06790-X
Hardcover, 213 pages
£18.99
Notes:
• Millennium Edition of the collection of essays that first appeared in 1962, revised and updated.
• 'Foreword to Millennial Edition' and Introduction by Arthur C. Clarke.
Essays: Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Nerve // Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination // The Future
of Transport // Riding on Air // Beyond Gravity // The Quest for Speed // World Without Distance // Rocket to the
Renaissance // You Can't Get There from Here // Space, the Unconquerable // About Time // Ages of Plenty //
Aladdin's Lamp // Invisible Men, and Other Prodigies // The Road to Lilliput // Voices from the Sky // Brain and
Body // The Obsolescence of Man // The Long Twilight // Chart of the Future (Millennial Edition)
