Sci Fiction 2001

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New Sci Fiction Titles 2001

Ben Bova The Precipice Published February 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0 340 76960 2
The Asteroid Wars: I
The asteroids are the richest source of metals and minerals humankind has ever discovered. They hold far more physical wealth than the entire planet Earth: untold megatons of gold, silver, platinum, rare earths; even water and organic chemicals.
These are the stories of the men and women who reach the asteroids, begin to mine their treasures and fight over the incredible wealth they hold . . .
The Precipice
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiralling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only, thing he has left - the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing.
Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph he does not care if Earth perishes in the process. And he knows that the perfect bait to ensnare Dan Randolph and take control of Astro is his revolutionary new fusion rocket propulsion system.
As Randolph - accompanied by two fascinating women who are also brilliant astronauts - flies out to the Asteroid Belt aboard a fusion-propelled spacecraft, Humphries makes his move. The future of mankind lies in Randolph's hands.
The Asteroid Wars have begun.

About The Author
An award-winning editor, President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, Ben Bova is also the author of more than one hundred futuristic novels and non-fiction books. Jupiter and The Precipice – the first volume in the Asteroid Wars sequence – are the most recent.
Ben Bova holds degrees from the State University of New York and Temple University, Philadelphia, and most recently received his Doctor of Education degree from California Coast University. In 2001, he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has taught writing at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and lectures regularly on topics dealing with high technology and the future. He and his wife live in Florida.

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Ben Bova The Precipice Pbk published August 2001 by NEL at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-340-76961-0

The Asteroid Wars: I
The asteroids are the richest source of metals and minerals humankind has ever discovered. They hold far more physical wealth than the entire planet Earth: untold megatons of gold, silver, platinum, rare earths; even water and organic chemicals.
These are the stories of the men and women who reach the asteroids, begin to mine their treasures and fight over the incredible wealth they hold . . .
The Precipice
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiralling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only, thing he has left - the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing.
Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based industry is the way of the future. But unlike Randolph he does not care if Earth perishes in the process. And he knows that the perfect bait to ensnare Dan Randolph and take control of Astro is his revolutionary new fusion rocket propulsion system.
As Randolph - accompanied by two fascinating women who are also brilliant astronauts - flies out to the Asteroid Belt aboard a fusion-propelled spacecraft, Humphries makes his move. The future of mankind lies in Randolph's hands.
The Asteroid Wars have begun.

About The Author
An award-winning editor, President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, Ben Bova is also the author of more than one hundred futuristic novels and non-fiction books. Jupiter and The Precipice – the first volume in the Asteroid Wars sequence – are the most recent.
Ben Bova holds degrees from the State University of New York and Temple University, Philadelphia, and most recently received his Doctor of Education degree from California Coast University. In 2001, he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has taught writing at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and lectures regularly on topics dealing with high technology and the future. He and his wife live in Florida.

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Ben Bova Jupiter Pbk published February 2001 by NEL at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-340-76765-0

Jupiter is a boundless ocean, ten times wider than the entire planet Earth. Heated from below by the planet’s seething core, it is the widest, deepest, most fearsome ocean in the solar system.
In his spectacular new novel of space exploration - in the tradition of his bestselling novel Mars - Ben Bova follows a small group of scientists who explore the giant planet in the hope of finding not merely living creatures but intelligent living creatures.
Idealistic young American scientist Grant Archer joins a clandestine expedition to this awesome new world. But Grant does not share the ideals of the scientists he accompanies: he has been planted on their expedition by the New Morality, a religious group, to ferret out what the ‘godless humanists’ have discovered. His mission: to reassure the new religious leaders of Earth that Jupiter holds no intelligent life.
But unknown to the New Morality, Grant, though the son of a minister, is both a believer and a man who sees no reason why science and faith cannot co-exist. He has come to the vast, planet-girdling ocean of Jupiter with an open mind, and he is about to tell his masters something that may shatter their conviction.

About The Author
An award-winning editor, President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, Ben Bova is also the author of more than one hundred futuristic novels and non-fiction books. Jupiter and The Precipice – the first volume in the Asteroid Wars sequence – are the most recent.
Ben Bova holds degrees from the State University of New York and Temple University, Philadelphia, and most recently received his Doctor of Education degree from California Coast University. In 2001, he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has taught writing at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and lectures regularly on topics dealing with high technology and the future. He and his wife live in Florida.

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Eric Brown New York Nights Pbk published April 2001 by Gollancz Millenium at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1-85798-782-9

Volume One of the Virex Trilogy
2040. New York is crowded with the lost. Refugees from the radioactive eastern seaboard, the splintered remains of a society in freefall, the lonely souls looking for salvation from reality, crowd the streets between buildings that hide their drabness behind gaudy hologram facades.
It's a good time to be working in Missing Persons and for Hal Halliday and Barney Kluger business for their agency has never been better. It's certainly busy enough for them to be able to forget their pasts and hide from the uncomfortable reality of their present lives. For most of the time.
But when Hal is asked to find a missing computer tech called Sissi Nigeria he is pulled into a bizarre world of countercultures intertwined with exotic virtual reality domains. It is a world haunted by ghosts of the past and, more terrifyingly, of the future. And soon Hal must face up to the memory of his two sisters; one he hasn't seen for five years, the other dead in a childhood accident.
Are we all better off leaving the real world behind and seeking a perfect virtual world where we are in control?
Eric Brown has written a fast-moving yet thought-provoking SF thriller. It is a novel that examines the real human costs of isolation and escapism in a future that offers wild possibilities.
Visit Eric Brown’s Web Site at: http://www.ericbrown.co.uk
Praise for Eric Brown and New York Nights:
'A book with real heart, and with stamina. As Eric Brown has been in a class of his own for some time, this verdict, perhaps, comes as no great surprise. New York Nights is brilliant' Infinity Plus
‘New York Nights is a notable performance, pitch-perfect; and Brown is an excellent writer.’ Interzone
‘Meditations on memory and guilt and forgiveness are what work best in the book, for Brown draws acute portraits of his characters, and makes their personal battles both convincing and affecting.’ SFSite
‘An intelligent science-fiction thriller, and Hal is one of the more attractively flawed of recent SF private eyes . . . it will be worth seeing where Hal is going to go next.’ Dreamwatch
‘The plot bucks you about like a rodeo bronco and you are as loath to let go; Brown orchestrates his surprises and revelations with a spare economy.’ Adam Roberts, author of Salt
‘Prying beneath the shiny surface of worlds to come, Brown explores the darkness lingering in the human heart. Recommended’ Stephen Baxter
'Eric Brown is the name to watch in SF' Peter F. Hamilton
''British writing with a deft, understated touch: wonderful' New Scientist
‘SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility ... accomplished and affecting' Paul McAuley, Interzone
'Stories which are the essence of modern science fiction and yet show a passionate concern for the human predicament and human values' Bob Shaw
‘One of the very best of the new generation of British SF writers’ Vector
About The Author
Eric Brown lives in Haworth, Yorkshire and is a full-time writer. He is the author of The Time Lapsed Man (1992), Meridian Days (1993), Blue Shifting (1995), Engineman (1994) and Penumbra (1999) as well as two novels for children: Untouchable and Walkabout. He is one of the most popular writers of Science Fiction short stories in the UK. He has been voted as one of the ten best writers of Science Fiction by Vector magazine (the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association). He is a regular contributor to Interzone magazine.

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Chris Bunch The Vortex: Sten 7 Pbk published September 2001 by Orbit at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-84149-082-2

The Eternal Emperor had returned at last from the dead, to pick up the pieces of his crumbling Empire. But even that great leader could not halt the Empire’s declice alone. And so Sten, master spy, military strategist, and assassin, found himself appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary.to the Altaic Cluster, where a brewing civil war threatened the stability of the Empire itself.
Quelling a civil war is nothing new for Sten, but as the war intensifies he begins to suspect that he is up against more than a mere local disturbance. Someone - operating in deep-cover and seemingly backed by the highest authorities - is working behind the scenes to manipulate events and escalate disaster. And that someone wants nothing more than to see Sten dead . . .

About The Author
Chris Bunch was part of the first troop commitment into Vietnam. Both Ranger and airborne-qualified, he served as a patrol commander and a combat correspondent for Stars and Stripes. Later, he edited outlaw motorcycle magazines and wrote for everything from the undergound press to Look magazine and Rolling Stone and primetime television. He is now a full-time novelist.
Allan Cole was raised as a CIA brat, travelling the world and visiting pretty much every global hot-spot before he was eighteen. Subsequently, he has worked as a chef, a prize-winning newspaperman and a TV screenwriter, He has nineteen novels to his credit and has written more than a hundred episodes for television shows such as Battlestar Galactica, The Rockford Files, The A-Team, Magnum, PL, Quincy, The Incredible Hulk, Walker, Texas Ranger, and even The Smurfs. He currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida, with Kathryn, his strongest supporter, and 'Squeak' - the cat who rules all writer elves.

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Chris Bunch Empire's End: Sten 8 Pbk published October 2001 by Orbit at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1-84149-083 0

The eighth book in the action-packed adventure series.
The Empire is in chaos. The once-great Imperial Navy has been shattered in battle and lies burning in space, riven by a civil war that threatens to engulf humanity’s future. For the revered Eternal Emperor is not the man his subjects thought him – and may not even be human at all.
And it is Sten – Imperial bodyguard, spy, assassin, renegade – who now leads humanity’s fight for survival. Taking command of the last rebel fleet, he sets out on a desperate quest to seek and destroy the dark source of his former master’s power. Denounced as a traitor, hunted by forces loyal to the Emperor, Sten must risk everything to annihilate the Empire he vowed to protect.

About The Author
Chris Bunch was part of the first troop commitment into Vietnam. Both Ranger and airborne-qualified, he served as a patrol commander and a combat correspondent for Stars and Stripes. Later, he edited outlaw motorcycle magazines and wrote for everything from the undergound press to Look magazine and Rolling Stone and primetime television. He is now a full-time novelist.
Allan Cole was raised as a CIA brat, travelling the world and visiting pretty much every global hot-spot before he was eighteen. Subsequently, he has worked as a chef, a prize-winning newspaperman and a TV screenwriter, He has nineteen novels to his credit and has written more than a hundred episodes for television shows such as Battlestar Galactica, The Rockford Files, The A-Team, Magnum, PL, Quincy, The Incredible Hulk, Walker, Texas Ranger, and even The Smurfs. He currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida, with Kathryn, his strongest supporter, and 'Squeak' - the cat who rules all writer elves.

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Chris Bunch Revenge of the Damned: Sten 5 Pbk published July 2001 by Orbit at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-84149-080-6

With Allan Cole
The fifth book in the action-packed SF adventure series..
Sten had fully expected to die in a blaze of glory, taking the Emperor’s greatest foe with him. Instead he was a slave labourer in a P.O.W.’ camp deep in the heart of enemy territory.
But sitting out the action had never bees Sten’s style. And now that the war was building to a climax, the Eternal Emperor needed him more than ever. Not even the toughest prison in the known universe can keep Sten from his mission…

About The Author
Chris Bunch was part of the first troop commitment into Vietnam. Both Ranger and airborne-qualified, he served as a patrol commander and a combat correspondent for Stars and Stripes. Later, he edited outlaw motorcycle magazines and wrote for everything from the undergound press to Look magazine and Rolling Stone and primetime television. He is now a full-time novelist.
Allan Cole was raised as a CIA brat, travelling the world and visiting pretty much every global hot-spot before he was eighteen. Subsequently, he has worked as a chef, a prize-winning newspaperman and a TV screenwriter, He has nineteen novels to his credit and has written more than a hundred episodes for television shows such as Battlestar Galactica, The Rockford Files, The A-Team, Magnum, PL, Quincy, The Incredible Hulk, Walker, Texas Ranger, and even The Smurfs. He currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida, with Kathryn, his strongest supporter, and 'Squeak' - the cat who rules all writer elves.

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Chris Bunch The Return of the Emperor: Sten 6 Pbk published August 2001 by Orbit at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-84149-081-4

With Allan Cole
The sixth book in the action-packed SF adventure series..
The Eternal Emperor was dead, and the five members of the Privy Council ruled in his place. But they quickly discovered that their power would collapse around them if they could not locate the Emperor’s secret source of anti-Matter Two, the economic keystone of the Empire. And so they sent a team of crack commandos to capture Sten, one of their late ruler’s few surviving confidantes.
But Sten – as usual – had his own agenda. For he knew something about the Eternal Emperor that would shake the Empire down to its foundations. And to play his part, all Sten had to do was kill the five most powerful beings in the universe.

About The Author
Chris Bunch was part of the first troop commitment into Vietnam. Both Ranger and airborne-qualified, he served as a patrol commander and a combat correspondent for Stars and Stripes. Later, he edited outlaw motorcycle magazines and wrote for everything from the undergound press to Look magazine and Rolling Stone and primetime television. He is now a full-time novelist.
Allan Cole was raised as a CIA brat, travelling the world and visiting pretty much every global hot-spot before he was eighteen. Subsequently, he has worked as a chef, a prize-winning newspaperman and a TV screenwriter, He has nineteen novels to his credit and has written more than a hundred episodes for television shows such as Battlestar Galactica, The Rockford Files, The A-Team, Magnum, PL, Quincy, The Incredible Hulk, Walker, Texas Ranger, and even The Smurfs. He currently lives in Boca Raton, Florida, with Kathryn, his strongest supporter, and 'Squeak' - the cat who rules all writer elves.

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Pat Cadigan Dervish is Digital Pbk published October 2001 by Pan at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-330-39107 0

Detective Lieutenant Doré Konstantin is up against it… and she still can’t find the fabled out door.
Konstantin is Chief Officer in charge of TechnoCrime, Artificial Reality Division. In fact, she is the AR Division -unless you count her subordinates. Celestine and DiPietro. Most of the time, Konstantin doesn’t count them, so puts them on loan to auto crime. Now, as if handling her heavy case-load almost single-handed wasn’t enough, she’s got a stalker to deal with.
Hastings Dervish, who’s so rich he lives in the Key West enclave where all legal records are sealed and the local police are bought and sold, is the stalker. At least, that’s what Susannah Ell claims, and she should know. Two reasons: first, she’s the one being stalked; second, she used to be married to Dervish. Worse, Susannah says Dervish is a race traitor – to the human race. He’s swapped places with an ambitious AI, and now Dervish has all the processing power he needs to infiltrate every line of code in Susannah’s AR design studio. And what about the AI? It’s using Dervish’s body as a base to visit AR, hanging out in the gambling casinos of the Lowdown Hong Kong mound.
Which is where the guys form the East/West Precinct, a Japanese law-enforcement agency, come in. and specifically Goku, who often likes to go into AR in the persona of a nine-year-old kid. This really makes Konstantin unhappy but, if she’s going to get the goods on Hasting Dervish, she’ll have to deal with Goku.
‘A character that readers will undoubtedly hope to see more of in the future’ Salon
‘Locations dazzle, sleights of hand abound’ Guardian
About The Author
Pat Cadigan was born in 1953 in Schenectady, New York and grew up in Massachusetts, attending the University of Massachusetts. She began publishing with ‘Death from Exposure’ in 1978 in Shayol, which she edited throughout its existence (1977-1985). Her other books include Synners, Fools (both of which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award) and Patterns. She moved to England in 1996 and lives in North London.
Pat Cadigan first introduced us to Doré Konstantin in Tea For An Empty Cup, which Salon magazine called a `tightly plotted, crisply written novel that fits the classic noir mystery template set down by the likes of Raymond Chandler more comfortably than anything William Gibson has ever written’. If you felt the way Salon did about Konstantin’s first time out, you’re going to love her second case. Fast, funny, packed with brilliant ideas, it’s how crime investigations are going to be the day after tomorrow.

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Caleb Carr Killing Time Pbk published September 2001 by Warner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-7515-3075-1

It is the greatest truth of our age: information is not knowledge
Manhattan, 2023. Vera Price’s husband has been murdered, and she wants criminal psychologist Dr Gideon Wolfe to investigate. On a disk she gives Gideon is the information that almost certainly cost her husband his life. For America is still in shock after the murder of its president, and the disk suggests the wrong man has been convicted…
In the Internet age, the world is drowning in information. And in a sea of unregulated and unverifiable facts, the truth is harder and harder to find. And as Gideon discovers, although there are those out there who want to put an end to this, their actions have the consequences of not only killing people, but of killing time itself…
‘An action-packed Hollywood-style romp.. if you have a little time to kill it could be just the ticket’ Edge ‘Among Caleb Carr’s virtues is an amiable prose style… and the ability to crank up the reader’s anticipation’ TLS
‘A convincing and well-written look into an all too plausible future’ SFX Magazine
‘Real storytelling verve’ Sunday Times
About The Author
Caleb Carr was born in Manhattan and still lives in New York. An historian by training, his previous novels, The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness, were set in New York at the turn of the C19th.

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Simon Clark The Night of the Triffids Published June 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0 340 76600 X
The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham’s extraordinary bestseller, is one man’s description of doomsday: almost the entire population has become blind and the world has a new master - the monstrous triffid plant. The novel ends with its narrator, Bill Masen, leaving the British mainland with his wife and four-year-old son to join a new colony on the Isle of Wight.
Simon Clark takes up the story twenty-five years later.
The tiny community, temporarily safe in its island fortress, has continued its work not only to eradicate the triffid menace but also to lay the foundations of a new civilization. Throughout the world, similar colonies struggle for survival, while the indefatigable triffid plant continues its march, seemingly intent on wiping out humankind.
In the 29th year since the fall of the old world, David Masen, the now grown-up son of Bill, wakes one morning to discover that the world has been mysteriously plunged into darkness. The few sighted people have their artificial lights, but once more the triffid has the advantage...
Fifty years after John Wyndham penned his classic bestseller, the acclaimed writer Simon Clark has devised an imaginative, ingenious and intriguing theory as to what might have happened to Bill Masen and his descendants in their ongoing battle against the triffids.

Simon Clark writes
I was twelve years old when I discovered John Wyndham’s awe-inspiring The Day Of The Triffids. For me, standing between the world of childhood and the mysterious new world of adulthood, it was a revelation.
The Day Of The Triffids wasn’t merely a good story; it was such a powerful transforming experience that the hero’s struggle for survival has stayed with me ever since.
And yet always, always when I re-read this great book, I feel an aching sense of loss as I reach the end. The characters were leaving me. But deep down I knew their stories continued. For years I dreamed about a their future adventures.
NOW, at long last, I can slip into the hero’s shoes to explore the ruins of a great civilization which died just a few years before the birth of rock and roll, moon landings and colour TV. I can face the menace of the murderous triffid again and learn that the battle for humankind’s survival is far from over.
Writing this book was a real labour of love, and I dedicate it with true respect and admiration to John Wyndam, 1903-1969

‘A definite confirmation of this author’s growing reputation as one of the top genre novelists around today’ Starburst
‘Readers will relish Clark’s uncomplicated cocktail of chloryphyl and human blood’ Financial Times
‘Simon Clark is not an author to let you down – the blood doesn’t flow through his text so much as pump arterially into the reader’s face’ SFX

About The Author
Born in 1958, Simon Clark lives in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. His short stories have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Darklands 2, Dark Voices 5 and The Year's Best Horror Stories (four time;). He has published a collection of short stories, Blood and Grit, and six earlier novels, Nailed by the Heart, Blood Crazy, Darker, King Blood, Vampyrrhic and The Fall. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has also written prose material for the internationally famous rock band U2.

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Simon Clark The Night of the Triffids Pbk published October 2001 by NEL at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-340-76601 8

The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham’s extraordinary bestseller, is one man’s description of doomsday: almost the entire population has become blind and the world has a new master - the monstrous triffid plant. The novel ends with its narrator, Bill Masen, leaving the British mainland with his wife and four-year-old son to join a new colony on the Isle of Wight.
Simon Clark takes up the story twenty-five years later.
The tiny community, temporarily safe in its island fortress, has continued its work not only to eradicate the triffid menace but also to lay the foundations of a new civilization. Throughout the world, similar colonies struggle for survival, while the indefatigable triffid plant continues its march, seemingly intent on wiping out humankind.
In the 29th year since the fall of the old world, David Masen, the now grown-up son of Bill, wakes one morning to discover that the world has been mysteriously plunged into darkness. The few sighted people have their artificial lights, but once more the triffid has the advantage...
Fifty years after John Wyndham penned his classic bestseller, the acclaimed writer Simon Clark has devised an imaginative, ingenious and intriguing theory as to what might have happened to Bill Masen and his descendants in their ongoing battle against the triffids.

Simon Clark writes
I was twelve years old when I discovered John Wyndham’s awe-inspiring The Day Of The Triffids. For me, standing between the world of childhood and the mysterious new world of adulthood, it was a revelation.
The Day Of The Triffids wasn’t merely a good story; it was such a powerful transforming experience that the hero’s struggle for survival has stayed with me ever since.
And yet always, always when I re-read this great book, I feel an aching sense of loss as I reach the end. The characters were leaving me. But deep down I knew their stories continued. For years I dreamed about a their future adventures.
NOW, at long last, I can slip into the hero’s shoes to explore the ruins of a great civilization which died just a few years before the birth of rock and roll, moon landings and colour TV. I can face the menace of the murderous triffid again and learn that the battle for humankind’s survival is far from over.
Writing this book was a real labour of love, and I dedicate it with true respect and admiration to John Wyndam, 1903-1969

‘A definite confirmation of this author’s growing reputation as one of the top genre novelists around today’ Starburst
‘Readers will relish Clark’s uncomplicated cocktail of chloryphyl and human blood’ Financial Times
‘Simon Clark is not an author to let you down – the blood doesn’t flow through his text so much as pump arterially into the reader’s face’ SFX
About The Author
Born in 1958, Simon Clark lives in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. His short stories have appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Darklands 2, Dark Voices 5 and The Year's Best Horror Stories (four time;). He has published a collection of short stories, Blood and Grit, and six earlier novels, Nailed by the Heart, Blood Crazy, Darker, King Blood, Vampyrrhic and The Fall. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has also written prose material for the internationally famous rock band U2.

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Arthur C. Clarke The Collected Stories Published January 2001 by Gollancz at Ł20.00 ISBN: 0-575-07065 X
'One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age' - New Yorker
Arthur C. Clarke is without question the world's best-known and most celebrated science fiction writer. His career, which now spans more than sixty years, is one of unequalled success. Now, in this huge and definitive book, he has collected every science fiction story shorter than novel length which he has published: over 100 in all, arranged in order of publication, from 'Travel By Wire' in 1937 through to 'Improving the Neighbourhood' in 1999.
The complete contents of his seven published collections are here, plus all the stories he has written in the last two decades - since The Wind from the Sun appeared - and all his previously-uncollected fiction, including the original stories which later grew into such novels as Childhood's End, Earthlight and The Songs of Distant Earth.
Clarke has always been celebrated for his clear prophetic vision, which is fully on display in this book, but there are also many stories which show his imagination in full flight, to the almost inconceivably distant future, and to far-flung star systems.
As the year 2001 approaches - Clarke's year just as indelibly as 1984 was Orwell's - there could be no greater testament to his genius than this volume.
'Arthur C.Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our time' Ray Bradbury
‘Arthur C Clarke’s first book for the millennium is a mammoth, truly indispensable collection… Collected Stories is a capstone to one of the greatest careers in science fiction and easily earns any hyperbole that a reviewer may indulge in. the story of science fiction cannot be told without the stories that are gathered here. Truly essential’ Locus
‘There’s an incredible range of subject matter ... much remains fresh . . . It almost goes without saying that this is an essential addition to any enthusiast’s library.’ Time Out
‘Nearly one thousand pages of some of the best short fiction the field has ever seen. This is probably the most significant reprint collection of the year, and it certainly deserves to be in the library of anyone who considers himself or herself a fan’ Science Fiction Chronicle
‘The Sentinel’ . . . is just one of the endless delights in this astonishing volume. The Collected Stories also contains such classics as ‘The Songs of Distant Earth’ and the tale that many people regard as the greatest single SF short story ever written, ‘The Nine Billion Names of God’. Even if you have all these tales in individual volumes, this is a pretty tempting collection.’ Starburst
‘We get a good idea of Clarke’s development as a writer, his full range of tones from facetious or sardonic to poetic or visionary, and his success and failures as a commentator on man’s evolution. Many of the stories have dated surprisingly little, and some are still very effective.’ Times Literary Supplement

About The Author
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Kt., CBE, was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England, to Charles W. Clarke, a farmer and lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and Nora Mary (Willis) Wright. He was married to Marilyn Mayfield in 1953 and divorced in 1964. A resident of Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1956, Sir Arthur received his CBE in 1989 and his knighthood (for services to literature) in 1998. In 1975, he was the fist noncitizen to receive Resident Guest status in Sri Lanka, where he is chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1979-). He is also chancellor of the International Space University (1989-).
The author of over eighty books and five hundred articles and short stories, Sir Arthur was educated at Huish Grammar School in Taunton (1927-36), and King's College, London, 1946-48 (B.Sc., first class, physics and mathematics). Before becoming a full-time writer, he was an auditor in H.M. Exchequer and Audit Department (1936-41) and served in the Royal Air Force (1941-46) as an instructor at the No. 9 Radio School and then flight lieutenant with MIT Radlab's ground-controlled approach radar. He originated the concept of the geosynchronous communications satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945, and the lunar mass-driver (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950). He was assistant editor of Physics Abstracts for the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1949-50, and chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, 1947-50 and 1953. From 1955 to 1965, Sir Arthur was involved in underwater exploration in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka.
From 1964 to 1968, Sir Arthur wrote, with film director Stanley Kubrick, the nove1 2001: A Space Odyssey, on which the film was based. This was followed by the book and film 2010 (1982), and the books 2061 (1988) and 3001 (1997). Other famous science fiction novels include Against the Fall of Night (1953), The Sands of Mars (1951), Childhood's End (1953), the four-part Rama series (1972-93), and The Hammer of God (1993), which Steven Spielberg optioned for the film Deep Impact. In 1952, his nonfiction work The Exploration of Space was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Arthur C. Clarke covered United States space missions and the Apollo Moon landings for CBS from 1957 to 1970. He wrote and hosted the television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, The World of Strange Powers, and Mysterious Universe in the 1980s and 1990s. He is an honorary vice president of the H. G. Wells Society, the honorary chairman of the Society of Satellite Professionals, president of the British Science Fiction Association, a life member of the British Science Writes, a board member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a trustee of the Spaceguard Foundation, as well as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Awards and honors include honorary fellows of the British Interplanetary Society, the American Astronautical Association, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Award, 1981; the IEE Centennial Medal, 1984; the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award, 1990; International Science Policy Foundation Medal, 1992; Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 1994; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 1995; Unesco Kalinga Prize, 1961; the von Karman Award, International Academy of Astronautics, Beijing, 1996; Oscar nomination, with Stanley Kubrick, for 2001 screenplay, 1969; Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986; and the Special Achievement Award, Space Explorers Association, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989.
Arthur C. Clarke's seventieth birthday, in December 1987, was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset; he was knighted in 1998 for his services to literature, shortly after his eightieth birthday, the first science fiction writer to be thus honoured.

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Arthur C. Clarke The Collected Stories Pbk published October 2001 by Gollancz at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1 85798 323 8

'One of the truly prophetic figures of the space age' - New Yorker
Arthur C. Clarke is without question the world's best-known and most celebrated science fiction writer. His career, which now spans more than sixty years, is one of unequalled success. Now, in this huge and definitive book, he has collected every science fiction story shorter than novel length which he has published: over 100 in all, arranged in order of publication, from 'Travel By Wire' in 1937 through to 'Improving the Neighbourhood' in 1999.
The complete contents of his seven published collections are here, plus all the stories he has written in the last two decades - since The Wind from the Sun appeared - and all his previously-uncollected fiction, including the original stories which later grew into such novels as Childhood's End, Earthlight and The Songs of Distant Earth.
Clarke has always been celebrated for his clear prophetic vision, which is fully on display in this book, but there are also many stories which show his imagination in full flight, to the almost inconceivably distant future, and to far-flung star systems.
As the year 2001 approaches - Clarke's year just as indelibly as 1984 was Orwell's - there could be no greater testament to his genius than this volume.
'Arthur C.Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our time' Ray Bradbury
‘Arthur C Clarke’s first book for the millennium is a mammoth, truly indispensable collection… Collected Stories is a capstone to one of the greatest careers in science fiction and easily earns any hyperbole that a reviewer may indulge in. the story of science fiction cannot be told without the stories that are gathered here. Truly essential’ Locus
‘There’s an incredible range of subject matter ... much remains fresh . . . It almost goes without saying that this is an essential addition to any enthusiast’s library.’ Time Out
‘Nearly one thousand pages of some of the best short fiction the field has ever seen. This is probably the most significant reprint collection of the year, and it certainly deserves to be in the library of anyone who considers himself or herself a fan’ Science Fiction Chronicle
‘The Sentinel’ . . . is just one of the endless delights in this astonishing volume. The Collected Stories also contains such classics as ‘The Songs of Distant Earth’ and the tale that many people regard as the greatest single SF short story ever written, ‘The Nine Billion Names of God’. Even if you have all these tales in individual volumes, this is a pretty tempting collection.’ Starburst
‘We get a good idea of Clarke’s development as a writer, his full range of tones from facetious or sardonic to poetic or visionary, and his success and failures as a commentator on man’s evolution. Many of the stories have dated surprisingly little, and some are still very effective.’ Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Kt., CBE, was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England, to Charles W. Clarke, a farmer and lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and Nora Mary (Willis) Wright. He was married to Marilyn Mayfield in 1953 and divorced in 1964. A resident of Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1956, Sir Arthur received his CBE in 1989 and his knighthood (for services to literature) in 1998. In 1975, he was the fist noncitizen to receive Resident Guest status in Sri Lanka, where he is chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1979-). He is also chancellor of the International Space University (1989-).
The author of over eighty books and five hundred articles and short stories, Sir Arthur was educated at Huish Grammar School in Taunton (1927-36), and King's College, London, 1946-48 (B.Sc., first class, physics and mathematics). Before becoming a full-time writer, he was an auditor in H.M. Exchequer and Audit Department (1936-41) and served in the Royal Air Force (1941-46) as an instructor at the No. 9 Radio School and then flight lieutenant with MIT Radlab's ground-controlled approach radar. He originated the concept of the geosynchronous communications satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945, and the lunar mass-driver (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950). He was assistant editor of Physics Abstracts for the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1949-50, and chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, 1947-50 and 1953. From 1955 to 1965, Sir Arthur was involved in underwater exploration in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka.
From 1964 to 1968, Sir Arthur wrote, with film director Stanley Kubrick, the nove1 2001: A Space Odyssey, on which the film was based. This was followed by the book and film 2010 (1982), and the books 2061 (1988) and 3001 (1997). Other famous science fiction novels include Against the Fall of Night (1953), The Sands of Mars (1951), Childhood's End (1953), the four-part Rama series (1972-93), and The Hammer of God (1993), which Steven Spielberg optioned for the film Deep Impact. In 1952, his nonfiction work The Exploration of Space was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Arthur C. Clarke covered United States space missions and the Apollo Moon landings for CBS from 1957 to 1970. He wrote and hosted the television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, The World of Strange Powers, and Mysterious Universe in the 1980s and 1990s. He is an honorary vice president of the H. G. Wells Society, the honorary chairman of the Society of Satellite Professionals, president of the British Science Fiction Association, a life member of the British Science Writes, a board member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a trustee of the Spaceguard Foundation, as well as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Awards and honors include honorary fellows of the British Interplanetary Society, the American Astronautical Association, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Award, 1981; the IEE Centennial Medal, 1984; the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award, 1990; International Science Policy Foundation Medal, 1992; Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 1994; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 1995; Unesco Kalinga Prize, 1961; the von Karman Award, International Academy of Astronautics, Beijing, 1996; Oscar nomination, with Stanley Kubrick, for 2001 screenplay, 1969; Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986; and the Special Achievement Award, Space Explorers Association, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989.
Arthur C. Clarke's seventieth birthday, in December 1987, was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset; he was knighted in 1998 for his services to literature, shortly after his eightieth birthday, the first science fiction writer to be thus honoured.

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Arthur C. Clarke The Space Trilogy Pbk published May 2001 by Gollancz at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1-85798-780-2

Arthur C. Clarke is without question the world’s best-known and most celebrated science fiction writer, with a sixty-year career of unparalleled success. Gathered together for the first time are three of his early novels, each displaying Clarke’s trademark clear prophetic vision.
The Sands of Mars A dedicated group of pioneers, amongst than some of Earth’s finest brains, struggle to change the face of the Red Planet…
Islands in the Sky Sixteen-year-old Roy Malcolm wins a TV Aviation Quiz; his prize is a trip to the Inner Station, orbiting Earth, but undreamed-of danger and excitement turn his greatest ambition into a nightmare …
Earthlight Man has colonised the planets, but the inhabitants of the Moon claim they owe no allegiance to any nation on Earth - or even to Earth itself…
Three different future worlds from the Master

About The Author
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Kt., CBE, was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England, to Charles W. Clarke, a farmer and lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and Nora Mary (Willis) Wright. He was married to Marilyn Mayfield in 1953 and divorced in 1964. A resident of Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1956, Sir Arthur received his CBE in 1989 and his knighthood (for services to literature) in 1998. In 1975, he was the fist noncitizen to receive Resident Guest status in Sri Lanka, where he is chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1979-). He is also chancellor of the International Space University (1989-).
The author of over eighty books and five hundred articles and short stories, Sir Arthur was educated at Huish Grammar School in Taunton (1927-36), and King's College, London, 1946-48 (B.Sc., first class, physics and mathematics). Before becoming a full-time writer, he was an auditor in H.M. Exchequer and Audit Department (1936-41) and served in the Royal Air Force (1941-46) as an instructor at the No. 9 Radio School and then flight lieutenant with MIT Radlab's ground-controlled approach radar. He originated the concept of the geosynchronous communications satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945, and the lunar mass-driver (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950). He was assistant editor of Physics Abstracts for the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1949-50, and chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, 1947-50 and 1953. From 1955 to 1965, Sir Arthur was involved in underwater exploration in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka.
From 1964 to 1968, Sir Arthur wrote, with film director Stanley Kubrick, the nove1 2001: A Space Odyssey, on which the film was based. This was followed by the book and film 2010 (1982), and the books 2061 (1988) and 3001 (1997). Other famous science fiction novels include Against the Fall of Night (1953), The Sands of Mars (1951), Childhood's End (1953), the four-part Rama series (1972-93), and The Hammer of God (1993), which Steven Spielberg optioned for the film Deep Impact. In 1952, his nonfiction work The Exploration of Space was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Arthur C. Clarke covered United States space missions and the Apollo Moon landings for CBS from 1957 to 1970. He wrote and hosted the television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, The World of Strange Powers, and Mysterious Universe in the 1980s and 1990s. He is an honorary vice president of the H. G. Wells Society, the honorary chairman of the Society of Satellite Professionals, president of the British Science Fiction Association, a life member of the British Science Writes, a board member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a trustee of the Spaceguard Foundation, as well as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Awards and honors include honorary fellows of the British Interplanetary Society, the American Astronautical Association, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Award, 1981; the IEE Centennial Medal, 1984; the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award, 1990; International Science Policy Foundation Medal, 1992; Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 1994; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 1995; Unesco Kalinga Prize, 1961; the von Karman Award, International Academy of Astronautics, Beijing, 1996; Oscar nomination, with Stanley Kubrick, for 2001 screenplay, 1969; Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986; and the Special Achievement Award, Space Explorers Association, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989.
Arthur C. Clarke's seventieth birthday, in December 1987, was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset; he was knighted in 1998 for his services to literature, shortly after his eightieth birthday, the first science fiction writer to be thus honoured.

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