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APRIL 2009 READING LIST:
In April 2009, we featured
the writings of a true icon of
sci-fi / fantasy works:
ARTHUR C. CLARKE ..
Also, don't forget to check out our
Audiobooks (below) for more titles
from this classic writer
There is a reason that Arthur C. Clarke
has won so many major awards
for his writings!
Try one and see for yourself ...
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The Writings of ARTHUR C. CLARKE
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2001:
A Space Odyssey
$3.95
Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, made into one of the most influential films of our century, brilliant, compulsive, prophetic, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY tackles the enduring theme of man's place in the universe. On the moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. Reissue. New.
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2010:
Odyssey Two
$5.55
The Leonov is beaten to Jupiter by a Chinese mission which lands on Jupiter's moon, Europa, and falls victim to its unknown terrain. The last astronaut to die on the alien surface broadcast a message - there is life on Europa.
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2061: Odyssey Three
$14.95
Arthur C. Clark revisits the most famous future ever imagined as two expeditions into space become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths, must again confront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided that Mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether it wishes to or not.
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3001:
The Final Odyssey
$3.78
One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again ...
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Rendezvous with Rama
$7.55
In the year 2130, a huge alien artifact approaches the Earth from outer space. Commander Norton and his crew take their spaceship to meet it and, once inside, discover the wonders that go to make up Rama. This novel won several major science fiction awards. |
Rama II
$7.00
In 2130, an alien spaceship, Rama, entered our solar system. The first product of an alien civilization to be encountered by man, it revealed many wonders to mankind - but most of its mysteries remained unsolved ...Sixty-six years later, a second approaching spacecraft was detected; four years on, the Ramans are definitely returning. But this time, Earth is ready ... |
Rama Revealed
$18.39
On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massive alien starship carries its human passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey. But the great experiment designed by the Ramans has failed, and Rama III has become a battleground. Fleeing a tyrant, a band of humans ventures into the nether regions of the ship, where they encounter an emerald-doomed lair ruled by the fabulously advanced octospiders. As the octospiders lure the humans deeper into their domain, the humans must decide whether the creatures are their allies or enemies ...
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Garden of Rama
$3.95
Rama II, the giant alien artifact, is to be turned into a habitat suitable for human beings. The colony starts well, but soon disintegrates under mounting political tensions.
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Childhood's End
$5.69
When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect. But, although the Overlords kept themselves hidden from man, they had come to unite a warring world ...
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Fountains of Paradise
$19.99
In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind of space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean ... |
Time's Eye
$7.59
In 2037, aliens known as the "Firstborn" fracture the nature of spacetime on Earth. The action leads up to a meeting in the city of Babylon between the armies of Alexander the Great, joined by 19th-century British troops and a trio of UN Peacekeepers, and the forces of Genghis Khan, who are accompanied by three cosmonauts from the International Space Station ... |
The Last Theorem
$20.48
The Last Theorem is a story of one man's mathematical obsession, and a celebration of the human spirit and the scientific method. It is also a gripping intellectual thriller in which humanity, facing extermination from all-but-omnipotent aliens, the Grand Galactics, must overcome differences of politics and religion and come together . . . or perish ...
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Venus Prime
$3.48
Her code name is Sparta. Her beauty veils a mysterious past and abilities far surpassing those of a normal human. For she is more than human: Sparta is the first product of advanced biotech engineering....
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Venus Prime 3
$5.50
At long last, evidence of extraterrestrial life has been found: a plaque discovered on the edge of the north polar icecap on Mars. When the theft of that alien artifact leads to two murders in the Labyrinth City, Sparta must risk her life to solve the case. As the mystery unravels, the investigation becomes a race across the stars to retrieve the plaque - a quest which will ultimately uncover even more evidence than Earth's scientists have ever discovered! |
Venus Prime 4
$1.89
Members of the Free Spirit, a religious cult intending to gain control of all the worlds of our galaxy, have infiltrated the Space Board. As the date of the manned mission into the clouds of Jupiter approaches, Sparta's suspicions grow. She is certain the mission has fallen into the hands of the cult, and she is determined to stop it ... |
Venus Prime 5
$21.79
Much excitement has arisen throughout the galaxy over the exploration mission to Jupiter's moon, Amalthea. Led by the renowned Professor J.Q.R. Forster, the dangerous expedition will lead its members to the surface of this strange moon -- and beyond...
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