Childhood’s End

Author: Arthur C. Clarke

Silent spacecraft take the light from the world, superintelligent aliens rule with wisdom not force, a new era of invention and prosperity brings hope and peace. The twilight of the human race has begun…..Read More

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2001: A Space Odyssey

It has been more than forty years since the publication of this classic science fiction novel that changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas… Continue Reading Posted in: Books on CD, Fantasy Films, Motion Pictures, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Films

The World of Ptavvs

Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not… Continue Reading Posted in: American, Science Fiction

Rendezvous with Rama

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. And it is hurtling through… Continue Reading Posted in: Alien Invasion Science Fiction, Fiction In English 1900 Texts, Hard Science Fiction, Reading Books, Textbooks For Foreign Speakers

The City and the Stars

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity, considered his finest novel.Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar. For millennia its protective dome shut… Continue Reading Posted in: Colonization Science Fiction, Colonization Science Fiction eBooks, English Fiction, Fiction In English 1900 Texts

Way Station

Clifford Simak, winner of Hugo, Nebula, Grand Master, and other science fiction awards, was never more clearly a master of modern SF than in this novel of a simple farmer… Continue Reading Posted in: First Contact Science Fiction, First Contact Science Fiction eBooks, For Non English Speaking Students, Readers, Textbooks For Foreigners

The Mote in God’s Eye

Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "Ringworld", "Debt of Honor", and "The Integral… Continue Reading Posted in: American Writers, Fiction In English, Life On Other Planets, Literature & Fiction, Military Science Fiction

2010: Odyssey Two

To the spaceship Discovery, floating in the silent depths of space since David Bowman passed through the alien 'Star Gate', comes Heywood Floyd on a mission of recovery. What he… Continue Reading Posted in: English, Fiction In English, Jupiter (Planet), Science Fiction, Space Operas

3001: The Final Odyssey

The body of Frank Poole, lost for a thousand years since the computer HAL caused his death en route to Jupiter, is retrieved, revived - and enhanced. In the most… Continue Reading Posted in: Exploration Of Outer Space, Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Exploration Science Fiction eBooks

Neutron Star

Journeys through Known Space.Come to Larry Niven's Universe and meet all the natives: Thrints, Bandersnatchi, Puppeteers -- and a host of other wonderfully created characters.Visit Lookitthat, Down, and Jinx --… Continue Reading Posted in: American, English, Literary Anthologies & Collections, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Anthologies, Short Stories

The Songs Of Distant Earth

From the world's most famous science fiction writer, a poignant and vivid story of doomsday and beyond. Continue Reading Posted in: End Of The World (Astronomy), English, Fiction In English 1945 Texts, Science Fiction

City

Simak's "City" is a series of connected stories, a series of legends, myths, and campfire stories told by Dogs about the end of human civilization, centering on the Webster family,… Continue Reading Posted in: Action & Adventure Literary Fiction, Colonization Science Fiction eBooks, Dystopias, Pollution, Technology And Civilization

2061: Odyssey Three

Arthur C. Clarke, creator of one of the world's best-loved science fiction tales, revisits the most famous future ever imagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions into… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Fiction In English, Hard Science Fiction, Space Exploration Science Fiction eBooks, Twenty First Century

Stranger In A Strange Land

NAME: Valentine Michael SmithANCESTRY: HumanORIGIN: MarsValentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic Literature & Fiction, English Fiction, Sects, United States

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