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"Rendezvous with Rama" is a 1973 hard science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke. The narrative follows a group of human astronauts in the 22nd century who intercept and explore a massive, cylindrical alien spacecraft named Rama as it passes through the solar system. Recognized as a fo...

The City and the Stars is a 1956 science-fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, substantially reworking his earlier novel Against the Fall of Night. It is set in the remote future, when most remaining humans live in Diaspar, an enclosed city whose inhabitants are repeatedly recreated from stored pattern...

The Fountains of Paradise is a 1979 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that depicts the construction of a space elevator on the fictional island of Taprobane (modeled after Clarke's adopted home of Sri Lanka). The novel follows engineer Vannevar Morgan as he attempts to build a physical bridg...

The Light of Other Days is a 2000 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter about the consequences of wormhole technology. The technology enables people to observe distant places and events from the past, creating conflicts involving privacy, surveillance, religion, politics, and...

Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, expanded from his 1958 short story of the same name. It is set on Thalassa, a water-covered colony world whose society is disrupted by the arrival of a starship carrying survivors from Earth. The novel focuses on the meeting...

Rama II is a science-fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee, published in 1989. It is the second novel in the Rama series and follows the earlier book Rendezvous with Rama, published by Clarke in 1973. The story continues the human encounter with the vast alien spacecraft known as Rama and...