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THE CITY AND THE STARS.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Based on the author's first published novel, Against the Fall of Night (1948; 1953). This novel "...is perhaps his most characteristic and most enduring." – Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 374-77. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-45. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 22.
THE CITY AND THE STARS.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Review copy with Harcourt advance slip affixed to front free end paper. Card with Clarke's signature laid in. A completely revised and expanded version of Clarke's first published novel, AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT (1948; 1953). "Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 (1968) is one of the most famous computer stories, but his THE CITY AND THE STARS (1956) may well be the profound artistically successful work of cybernetic fiction ... [It] is one of the most remarkable accomplishments of the imagination in all the literature that I am considering. Beyond imagining how computers might transform a society, Clarke also dramatizes the philosophical implications of life in a totally structured society. The novel is even more deserving of commendation because it is an early cybernetic novel, and computers and information theory were recent developments when it was written." - Warrick, The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction, pp. 166-70. This novel "is perhaps his most characteristic and most enduring." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 374-7. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-245. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 22.
THE CITY AND THE STARS.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1956]. Octavo, boards. First edition. A completely revised and expanded version of Clarke's first published novel, AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT (1948; 1953). "Arthur C. Clarke's 2001 (1968) is one of the most famous computer stories, but his THE CITY AND THE STARS (1956) may well be the profound artistically successful work of cybernetic fiction ... [It] is one of the most remarkable accomplishments of the imagination in all the literature that I am considering. Beyond imagining how computers might transform a society, Clarke also dramatizes the philosophical implications of life in a totally structured society. The novel is even more deserving of commendation because it is an early cybernetic novel, and computers and information theory were recent developments when it was written." - Warrick, The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction, pp. 166-70. This novel "is perhaps his most characteristic and most enduring." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 374-7. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-245. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 22.
THE DEEP RANGE.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1957]. Octavo, boards. First edition. "Classic early story of oceanic exploration."– Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-99. Review slip tipped in on front free end paper.
EARTHLIGHT.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. An early science fiction novel of man's first colony on the moon. Dust jacket art by Richard Powers.
EARTHLIGHT.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1955]. Octavo, illustration by Richard Powers, cloth. First edition. An early science fiction novel of man's first colony on the moon.
THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE.
London: Temple Press, 1951. Octavo, color and black and white illustrations, original black cloth, spine stamped in gold. First edition. Signed by Clarke on the title page. Clarke's second book on rocketry and space travel. "... this book by the charman of the British Interplanetary Society is written for a wider public" (Ley). International Fantasy Award, 1952 winner for non-fiction.
A FALL OF MOONDUST.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1961]. Octavo. cloth. First edition. A novel of a rescue operation on the Moon. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-101.
A FALL OF MOONDUST.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1961]. Octavo. cloth. First edition. A novel of a rescue operation on the Moon. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-101.
A FALL OF MOONDUST.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1961. Octavo, boards. First British edition. The U.S. edition preceded by a few days. "A sightseeing vehicle, packed with tourists, sinks into a sea of dust on the Moon's surface. The subsequent struggle for survival is tensely described, with fascinating scientific details. Not one of Clarke's 'visionary' novels, but probably the best of his works of near-future realism." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 129. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 3-101.
THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo awards for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-250.
THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. "On an island in the Indian Ocean a twenty second -century engineer builds a colossal 'space elevator' which will connect with a station in geosynchronous orbit. A blend of old-fashioned Brunel-style technological heroics with Sri Lankan myth, effectively done in Clarke's best style." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 143-4. Winner of the 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo awards for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-250.
THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. "On an island in the Indian Ocean a twenty second -century engineer builds a colossal 'space elevator' which will connect with a station in geosynchronous orbit. A blend of old-fashioned Brunel-style technological heroics with Sri Lankan myth, effectively done in Clarke's best style." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), pp. 143-4. Winner of the 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo awards for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-250.
THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. Octavo, boards. First edition. Winner of the 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo awards for best novel. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-250.
FROM THE OCEAN, FROM THE STARS.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., [1962]. Octavo, cloth. First combined edition. Collects THE CITY AND THE STARS (1956), THE DEEP RANGE (1957), and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SKY (1958).
THE GHOST FROM THE GRAND BANKS.
New York: Ballantine Books, [1990]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First U.S. edition. A novel of a race to raise the Titanic in the early 21st Century.
THE HAMMER OF GOD.
New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, [1993]. First U. S. edition. In 2010 an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth and the race to alter its course.
IMPERIAL EARTH: A FANTASY OF LOVE AND DISCORD.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1975. Octavo, boards. First edition. "The cloned hero travels from his home in the outer solar system to Earth in the year 2276. The story is thin, but it's a pleasing utopian travelogue, full of incidental wonders." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition, pp. 182-3. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-137. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1019-25.
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONAUTICS ...
London: Temple Press Limited, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490.
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONAUTICS ...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, U.S. issue (UK sheets). Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490.
INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT: AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONAUTICS.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, n.d., [1950]. Octavo, cloth. First edition, U. S. issue (UK sheets). Title page is a cancel. Clarke's first book. "The best modern semi-technical work on astronautics" (Humphries). Ciancone 45. Humphries, Rockets and Guided Missiles 21. Ley, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, revised edition, 1957, p. 490.
ISLANDS IN THE SKY ...
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, jacket and endpaper illustrations by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. Signed by Clarke on title page. As his prize for winning a TV quiz show in the second half of the twenty-first century, a young man is given the opportunity to visit an orbiting space station. His adventures there include a runaway rocket ship, the making of a space film, and a confrontation with space pirates. A "plausible and accurate fictional tour of the space stations which are probably in our very near future." - Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-251.
ISLANDS IN THE SKY.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1952. Octavo, Hardcover. First British edition.
ISLANDS IN THE SKY.
Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, [1952]. Octavo, jacket and endpaper illustrations by Alex Schomburg, cloth. First edition. Part of the classic Winston science fiction series for young readers published between 1952 and 1961. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 5-31.
ISLANDS IN THE SKY.
[New York]: A Signet Book / Published by the New American Library, [1960]. Small octavo, cover by Paul Lehr, pictorial wrappers. First U. S. paperback edition. Signet S1769.