Arthur C. Clarke

Featuring a carefully curated selection of classic and influential tales, this collection showcases the very best of detective fiction and science fiction from some of the most celebrated authors of all time.

Un desenlace sorprendente y estremecedor en la conclusión de esta célebre saga. Frank Poole, subcomandante de la nave Discovery que en el año que en el año 2001 partió en misión secreta hacia Júpiter, es encontrado vagando por el espacio mil años después, en estado de hibernación.

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....

This book contains 26 of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America....

From early work through classic stories and all the way to later work, this comprehensive short story collection encapsulates one of the great science fiction careers of all time....

"Rescue Party" was first published in the May 1946 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction....

From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man adventures to the outer rim of our solar system, 2001: A Space Odyssey is a journey unlike any other....

Des années se sont écoulées depuis qu'un contingent d'êtres humains s'est installé à bord de Rama, cet étrange vaisseau-monde d'origine inconnue qui traversait le système solaire. Et voilà que leur folie meurtrière les pousse à exterminer tous leurs paisibles voisins extraterrestres !

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind....

"A Meeting with Medusa" was first published in the December 1971 issue of Playboy....

¿Qué extraño propósito subyace en el monolito? ¿Qué pudo llevar a HAL a acabar con la tripulación? Todas estas preguntas y muchas más encuentran su respuesta en 2010: Odisea dos.

The Songs of Distant Earth was first published in the June 1958 issue of If....

Words have power. Some words have more power than others. So when a group of monks seek to enlist modern technology in their quest to list all nine billion names of god....

Secuela final de la novela de ciencia ficción Cita con Rama. El desenlace esperado por muchos lectores para conocer, finalmente, todo sobre la nave Rama....

The Hammer of God was first published in the Sept. 28, 1992 issue of Time....

When a celebrated science fiction writer takes to space on his first trip to Mars, he stumbles upon Mars' most carefully hidden secrets and threatens the future of the entire planet....

In 3001: The Final Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke brings the greatest and most successful science fiction series of all time to its magnificent, stunningly unforeseen conclusion. As we hurtle toward the new millennium in real time, Clarke brilliantly, daringly leaps one thousand years into the future...

The story of Island in the Sky centers around a young man, who, after brilliantly winning a space-related competition, requests a vacation on a space station as his prize....

Vannemar Morgan's dream is to link Earth to the stars with the greatest engineering feat of all time: a 24,000-mile-high space elevator....

The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus, and Mars....