Bøger af Arthur C. Clarke

Written when landing on the moon was still a dream, and made into one of the most influential films of all time, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY remains a classic work of science fiction fifty years after its original publication. The discovery of a black monolith on the moon leads to a manned expedition deep into the solar system, in the hope of establishing contact with an alien intelligence. Yet long before the crew can reach their destination, the voyage descends into disaster . . . Brilliant, compulsive and prophetic, Arthur C. Clarke's timeless novel tackles the enduring theme of mankind's place in the universe.Praise for Arthur C. Clarke:'The king of science fiction . . . His influence continues to inform the genre' Guardian'Arthur C. Clarke is awesomely informed about physics and astronomy, and blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print' New York Times'Arthur C. Clarke is one of the truly prophetic figures of the space age . . . The colossus of science fiction' New Yorker 'Dazzling' Time

A reissue of an all-time science fiction classic, from the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey

I Arthur C. Clarkes science fiction-klassiker Rendezvous med Rama udforsker en gruppe astronauter et mystisk himmellegeme, der trænger ind i vort solsystem ude fra rummet og med kollisionskurs mod solen. Det viser sig at være en kunstig cylinder af uhyre dimensioner, der i sit indre skjuler en hel verden af vidundere og skrækindjagende fænomener skabt af en ukendt civilisations avancerede videnskab og teknologi. Men hvor er de fremmede fra Rama? Og hvem er de? Rendezvous med Rama er en vaskeægte scifi-page-turner – mere spændende end nogen kriminalroman! Den gådefulde historie om mødet med en fremmed civilisation har fascineret læsere siden den udkom første gang og åbner helt nye perspektiver for menneskeheden og vores fremtid i kosmos.Rendezvous med Rama bliver ofte udråbt til at være Clarkes bedste roman, og den vandt da også en lang række prestigefulde priser, heriblandt Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Jupiter Award og British Science Fiction Award. Og det siger en del, da det amerikanske scifi-ikon også har skrevet klassikere som 2001: A Space Odyssey (der blev filmatiseret af Stanley Kubrick) og Childhood’s End. “Mr. Clarke er enestående… Vi oplever det fremmedes kølige nærvær, det vi ikke rigtigt kan vide, netop det, som udmærker science fiction, når dens forestillingskraft er stærkest.” ―The New York Times“en iskold klassiker inden for hard sci-fi” – The Guardian.

The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick's immortal filmandchanged the way we look at the stars and ourselves.From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system,2001: A Space Odysseyis a journey unlike any other.This allegory about humanity's exploration of the universeand the universe's reaction to humanityis a hallmark achievement in storytelling that follows thecrew of the spacecraftDiscovery as they embark on a mission to Saturn. Their vessel is controlled by HAL 9000, an artificially intelligent supercomputer capable of the highest level of cognitive functioning that rivalsand perhaps threatensthe human mind. Grappling with space exploration, the perils of technology, and the limits of human power,2001: A Space Odysseycontinues to be an enduring classic of cinematic scope.

To the spaceship Discovery, floating in the silent depths of space since Dave Bowman passed through the alien 'Star Gate', comes Heywood Floyd on a mission of recovery. What he finds near Jupiter is beyond the imaginings of any mere human.

From the world's most famous science fiction writer, a poignant and vivid story of doomsday and beyond.

Omnibus edition of three classic and inspirational Clarke tales

Opdagelsen af en sort monolit på månen fører til en bemandet ekspedition dybt ind i solsystemet i håb om at etablere kontakt med en fremmed intelligens. Men længe før besætningen kan nå deres destination, tager rejsen at en uventet drejning.Arthur C. Clarkes tidløse science fiction-klassiker har ændret den måde, vi ser på stjernerne, rummet – og os selv. En strålende og profetisk thriller, der diskuterer menneskehedens plads i universet og vores forhold til kunstig intelligens (AI), der i dag er mere aktuelt end nogensinde.Arthur C. Clarke skrev Rumrejsen år 2001 i forbindelse med samarbejdet på manuskriptet til Stanley Kubricks nu klassiske science fiction-film af samme navn, og begge værker hører til blandt alle tiders klassiske bidrag til genren.Science fiction-forfatteren Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) skrev hundrede bøger og mere end tusind noveller og essays. Han er kendt som en af hovedfigurerne i genren og modtog et utal af priser og den eneste science fiction-forfatter, der blev nomineret til Nobels Fredspris. Desuden har han fået både en asteroide og en dinosaurart opkaldt efter sig. En af hans noveller inspirerede World Wide Web, mens en anden blev til filmen 2001: A Space Odyssey, som han skrev sammen med Stanley Kubrick. Hans bøger har solgt mere end 100 millioner eksemplarer verden over.“Kongen af science fiction… Hans indflydelse fortsætter med at definere genren.” – Guardian

La edición ilustrada del gran clásico de Arthur C. Clarke con 5 ilustraciones del artista Gabriel Björk Stiernström > Cita con Rama es una de las obras más premiadas de uno de los mejores escritores de ciencia ficción de todos los tiempos, galardonada con los premios Hugo, Nebula, Locus, John W. Campbell y BSFA. «Arthur C. Clarke expandirá tus horizontes». -The Guardian ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This is an illustrated edition of Arthur C. Clarke's great classic, now with 5 illustrations by the artist Gabriel Björk Stiernström. Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel-- "a stone-cold classic of hard sci-fi." --The Guardian. An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours. They find an interior stretching over fifty kilometers; a forbidding cylindrical sea; mysterious and inaccessible buildings; and strange machine-animal hybrids, or "biots," that inhabit the ship. But what they don't find is an alien presence. So, who--and where--are the Ramans? Often listed as one of Clarke's finest novels, Rendezvous with Rama won numerous awards, including the Hugo, the Nebula, the Jupiter, and the British Science Fiction Awards. A fast-paced and compelling story of an enigmatic encounter with alien technology, Rendezvous with Rama offers both answers and unsolved mysteries that will continue to fascinate readers for generations. "Mr. Clarke is splendid . . . We experience that chilling touch of the alien, the not-quite-knowable, that distinguishes SF at its most technically imaginative." --The New York Times

From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his generation, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass. When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting-edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times-around every corner, through every wall-the result is the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy, forever. Then the same technology proves able to look backward in time as well. The Light of Other Days is a story that will change your view of what it is to be human.

When Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a special gift for numbers, writes a three-page proof of the coveted "Last Theorem,” which French mathematician Pierre de Fermat claimed to have discovered (but never recorded) in 1637, Ranjit's achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame and fortune. But it also brings him to the attention of the National Security Agency and a shadowy United Nations outfit called Pax per Fidem-or Peace Through Transparency-whose secretive workings belie its name. Suddenly Ranjit-along with his family-finds himself swept up in world-shaking events, his genius for abstract mathematical thought put to uses that are both concrete and potentially deadly.

In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent and unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since 2001: A Space Odyssey.'Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?' With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light. Realtime television coverage is here: earthquakes and wars, murders and disasters can be watched, exactly as they occur, anywhere on the planet.Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space. Humanity encounters itself in the light of other days. We witness the life of Jesus, go to the premiere of Hamlet, solve the enigmas that have baffled generations. Blood spilled centuries ago flows vividly once more - and no personal treachery or shame can be concealed.But when the world and everything in it becomes as transparent as glass and there are no more secrets, people find new ways to gain vengeance and commit crime. And Hiram Patterson meanwhile will try to keep his deadly schemes secret - but even he, its creator, cannot anticipate the power of the all-seeing WormCam.

The final work from the brightest star in science fiction's galaxy. Arthur C Clarke, who predicted the advent of communication satellites and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey completes a lifetime career in science fiction with a masterwork.30 light years away, a race known simply as the One Point Fives are plotting a dangerous invasion plan, one that will wipe humankind off the face of the Earth...Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka, a young astronomy student, Ranjit Subramanian, becomes obsessed with a three-hundred-year-old theorem that promises to unlock the secrets of the universe. While Ranjit studies the problem, tensions grow between the nations of the world and a UN taskforce headed up by China, America and Russia code-named Silent Thunder begins bombing volatile regimes into submission.On the eve of the invasion of Earth a space elevator is completed, helped in part by Ranjit, which will herald a new type of Olympics to be held on the Moon. But when alien forces arrive Ranjit is forced to question his own actions, in a bid to save the lives of not just his own family but of all of humankind.Co-written with fellow grand master Frederik Pohl, The Last Theorem not only provides a fitting end to the career one of the most famous names in science fiction but also sets a new benchmark in contemporary prescient science fiction. It tackles with ease epic themes as diverse as third world poverty, the atrocities of modern warfare in a post-nuclear age, space elevators, pure mathematics and mankind's first contact with extra-terrestrials.

In a single volume, the complete short fiction of one of the greatest SF writers of the centuryAuthor of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive. He is-with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein-one of the writers who define science fiction in our time. Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works. From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre," through classics like "The Star," "Earthlight," "The Nine Billion Names of God," and "The Sentinel" (kernel of the later novel, and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The Hammer of God," this immense volume encapsulates one of the great SF careers of all time.

Los cuatro libros que componen una de las sagas más célebres de la ciencia-ficción reunidos en un volumen único.Los cuatro libros que componen la saga «Odisea espacial» -2001. Una odisea espacial; 2010. Odisea dos; 2061. Odisea tres y 3001. Odisea final- suponen uno de los grandes hitos de la literatura de ciencia-ficción y el relato, fantástico pero no fantasioso, de una de las mayores epopeyas de todos los tiempos.La aparición de un misterioso monolito negro es el eje sobre el cual gira una aventura que dura miles de años, desde los primeros pasos del hombre como tal hasta la conquista del espacio, la creación de inteligencias artificiales y el contacto con seres superiores cuya forma de vida nada tiene que ver con la que conocemos en la Tierra.La intriga, la acción y la desbordante imaginación propias del género confluyen en esta obra magna con el planteamiento de las grandes cuestiones de la humanidad: ¿Quiénes somos? ¿Cuál es nuestra esencia? ¿Qué lugar ocupamos en el cosmos?ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONAll four books that make up one of the most famous science fiction sagas of all times, together in one single volume. The four books that make up the saga "Space Odyssey": 2001. Una odisea espacial / 2001. A Space Odyssey; 2010. Odisea dos / 2010. Odyssey Two; 2061. Odisea tres / 2061. Odyssey Three, and 3001. Odisea final / 3001. The Final Odyssey. These works, fantastic but not whimsical, represent one of the great landmarks in science fiction literature and narrative, and one of the greatest epics of all time. The presence of a mysterious black stone is the basis which spins an adventure that lasts thousands of years; from the first steps of man as such, to the conquest of space, the creation of artificial intelligences, and contact with superior beings whose life form has nothing to do with what we recognize on Earth. Intrigue, action, and overflowing imagination of the genre come together in this great work while inquiring about some of the greatest questions of humanity: Who are we? What is the core of our being? What place do we occupy in the universe?

Features sixteen stories inspired by the 20th century's great master of horror, H P Lovecraft, and his acknowledged masterpiece, "At the Mountains of Madness".

"Entertaining . . . [Arthur Clarke] handles both ideas and characters with deftness and wit; in short, the outstanding living science fiction writer is romping."-Chicago Sun-TimesIn the year 2110 technology has cured most of our worries. But even as humankind enters a new golden age, an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky and sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization. While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a sign from God, the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately search for a way to avoid the inevitable. On board the starship Goliath Captain Robert Singh and his crew must race against time to redirect the meteor form its deadly collision course. Suddenly they find themselves on the most important mission in human history-a mission whose success may require the ultimate sacrifice.Praise for The Hammer of God"Clarke is still at the top of his game."-The Detroit News"As good as anything he has written . . . For a hard science-fiction treat, I suspect The Hammer of God won't be topped."-Star Tribune, Minneapolis"Classic Clarke . . . A good story."-The Denver Post

The best collection ever of Arthur C. Clarke's short fiction, including the stories on which 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End were based.

When Frank Poole, whose body has been frozen in deep space for 1000 years, is resurrected, his second life brings him enlightening culture shocks a-plenty, but his Odyssey eventually leads him to defy the limitless power of an alien technology. The final sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

2061 is the year Halley's Comet makes its next pilgrimage to the inner Solar System - and the year centenarian Heywood Floyd encounters once again the alien Monoliths. Near Jupiter, the transfigured forms of Dave Bowman and HAL the computer are Heywood's only chance of survival - if they too are not now alien beings.