author : Arthur C. Clarke

expanded from "Guardian Angel"

Super-powerful aliens come to Earth, and take over. What are their ultimate intentions, and why won't they let us even see them?

Contents (possible spoilers)

• 'If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth...'

• Breaking Strain

filmed as Trapped in Space, 1994

• Expedition to Earth

• Superiority

• Nemesis

• Encounter in the Dawn

• Loophole

• Inheritance

• Hide and Seek. 1949

• Second Dawn. 1951

• The Sentinel. 1954

revised and expanded "Against the Fall of Night"

expansion of "Against the Fall of Night"

Contents (possible spoilers)

• The Forgotten Enemy. 1949

• The Curse. 1953

• A Walk In The Dark. 1950

• Trouble With the Natives. 1951

• Technical Error. 1950. = The Reversed Man

• Jupiter Five. 1953

• The Possessed. 1952

• The Fires Within. 1949

• Time's Arrow. 1952

• Parasite. 1953

• Rescue Party. 1946

• The Awakening. 1942

Contents (possible spoilers)

• The Next Tenants. 1956

• Sleeping Beauty. 1957

• Critical Mass. 1957

• Armaments Race. 1954

• Patents Pending. 1954

• The Ultimate Melody. 1956

• Cold War

• Moving Spirit

• What Goes Up. 1955

• The Pacifist. 1956

• Big Game Hunt. 1954

• The Man Who Ploughed the Sea

• The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch

• The Reluctant Orchid. 1956

• Silence Please. 1954

A tourist bus on the Moon gets sucked into a chasm filled with fine dust. The race is on to save the trapped passengers.

Contents (possible spoilers)

• The Other Side of the Sky. 1957

• Special Delivery

• Feathered Friend

• Take a Deep Breath

• Freedom of Space

• Passer-by

• The Call of the Stars

• The Wall of Darkness. 1949

• Security Check. 1957

• No Morning After. 1954

• The Starting Line

• Robin Hood, F.R.S.

• Green Fingers

• All That Glitters

• Watch This Space

• A Question of Residence

• Publicity Campaign. 1956

• All the Time in the World. 1952

• Cosmic Casanova

• Out of the Sun. 1954

• Transcience

• The Songs of Distant Earth

• Venture to the Moon. 1956

• Refugee. 1955. = ?

• The Star. 1955

• The Nine Billion Names of God. 1953

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Saturn Rising. 1961

• I Remember Babylon. 1960

• Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting.... 1959. = Out of the Cradle

• Who's There?. 1958. = The Haunted Spacesuit

• An Ape About the House. 1962

• Let There Be Light. 1957

• Trouble With Time. 1960. = Crime on Mars

• A Slight Case of Sunstroke. 1958. = The Stroke of the Sun

• Dog Star. 1962. = Moondog

• Road to the Sea. 1950. = Seeker of the Sphinx

• Summertime on Icarus. 1960. = The Hottest Piece of Real Estate in the Solar System

• Into the Comet. 1960. = Inside the Comet

• Hate. 1961. = At the End of the Orbit

• Death and the Senator. 1961

• Before Eden. 1961

Contents (possible spoilers)

• The Food of the Gods. 1961

• Maelstrom II. 1962

• The Shining Ones. 1962

• The Wind From the Sun. 1963

• The Secret. 1963

• The Last Command. 1963

• Dial F for Frankenstein. 1963

• Reunion. 1963

• Playback. 1963

• The Light of Darkness. 1964

• The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Told. 1966. = A Recursion in Metastories

• Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq.. 1967

• Love That Universe. 1966

• Crusade. 1966

• The Cruel Sky. 1966

• Neutron Tide. 1970

• Transit of Earth. 1970

• A Meeting With Medusa. 1972

Named for the start of the third millennium, this is not simply the "book of the film": it was developed in parallel with Kubrick's masterpiece. And it's a little less cryptic in its ending.

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Against the Fall of Night. 1948

revised and expanded as The City and the Stars

• The Lion of Comarre. 1949

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Summertime on Icarus. 1960. = The Hottest Piece of Real Estate in the Solar System

• Hide and Seek. 1949

• History Lesson. 1949

• Castaway. 1947

• Whacky. 1942

• Retreat from Earth. 1938

• Travel by Wire. 1937

• Into the Comet. 1960. = Inside the Comet

• Second Dawn. 1951

• Venture to the Moon. 1956

• The Sentinel. 1954

• Refugee. 1955. = ?

• The Star. 1955

• Hate. 1961. = At the End of the Orbit

• Death and the Senator. 1961

• Sunjammer. 1965

• (bibliography)

• A Meeting With Medusa. 1972

• The Awakening. 1942

Contents (possible spoilers)

• James Blish. We All Die Naked. 1969

• Robert Silverberg. How It Was When the Past Went Away. 1969

• Roger Zelazny. The Eve of RUMOKO. 1969

Contents (possible spoilers)

• Poul Anderson. Sunjammer. 1964

• Arthur C. Clarke. The Wind From the Sun. 1963

• Arthur C. Clarke. The Winds of Space (forward to Project Solar Sail). 1990

• Isaac Asimov. Sailing the Void (introduction to Project Solar Sail). 1990

• Ray Bradbury, Jonathan V. Post. To Sail Beyond the Sun (A Luminous Collage). 1990

• K. Eric Drexler. The Canvas of Night. 1990

• David Brin. Ice Pilot. 1990

• Jonathan Eberhart. A Solar Privateer. 1981

• Chauncey Uphoff, Jonathan V. Post. A Rebel Technology Comes Alive

• Alfred Lord Tennyson. Argosies of Magic Sails

• Brian Palaszewski. Ion Propulsion: The Solar Sail's Competition. 1990

• Charles Sheffield. The Grand Tour. 1987

• Scott E. Green. Lightsail. 1990

• Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason. Rescue at L-5. 1990

• Robert L. Forward, Joel Davis. Lightsails to the Stars. 1990

• Joe Clifford Faust. Goodnight, Children. 1990

• Robert L. Staehle, Louis Friedman. Solar Sails in an Interplanetary Economy. 1990

• Arthur C. Clarke. Afterword to "Project Solar Sail". 1990

• Larry Niven. The Fourth Profession. 1971