Category: Arthur C. Clarke

Childhood's End

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Ballantine Books : 1966

Seller ID: 8388

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Pinkish red boards with black lettering, 220 pp. Corners bumped including top and base of spine, light speckling on top edge. Jacket in new Brodart, a little apparent damp staining along spine, minor chipping along edges including top and base of spine. Book club edition with a gutter code indicating printing date of May 1966. A nice copy of this science fiction classic. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 220 pages; "This is the story of the last generation of mankind on earth. In 1975 man's international armaments race is halted abruptly by ships from outer space which suddenly appear above ever...
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Earthlight

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $3.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Ballantine Books : 1971

Seller ID: 000589

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Ex-Library with usual markings. Spine is somewhat creased, but taped. Covers are a brit chipped and scuffed. Some foxing, but pages are in good shape. "Time was running out. Sadler knew that the discovery of heavy metals on the Moon could lead to a devastating war between Earth and the younger colonies of Mars and Venus. And someone in the quiet, respectable group of scientists on the Moon -- someone Sadler had to find -- was passing information to the unseen warships in outer space. . . If war came, the Moon would be the target. But Sadler's job was to prevent that war if he could . . ...
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Prelude to Space

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $4.45

Publisher: New York, NY, Lancer Books : 1970

Seller ID: 001811

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Corners bumped, slight edge wear, covers bowed out slightly.

Includes a special post-Apollo preface by the author, plus the foreward to the 1962 edition.
"Prometheus. . . the man who stole the gift of fire from the gods. . . the ship that would steal the gift of space from the universe. . . Arthur C. Clarke's world-wide reputation as a master of science fiction is unmatched since the days of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. In a time when science is daily outstripping science fiction, Prelude To Space stands as his most prophetic novel."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Reach for Tomorrow

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $3.90

Publisher: New York, NY, Del Ray / Ballantine : 1977

Seller ID: 001813

ISBN-13: 9780345258199

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Corners bumped, slight edge wear. A clean, bright copy.

Twelve memorable sci-fi tales filled with wonder and imagination, including "Rescue Party," "A Walk in the Dark," and "Trouble with the Natives." Excellent examples of Clarke's dry humor and his unique brand of global disaster tales.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Tales of Ten Worlds

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Dell Publishing : 1964

Seller ID: 8879

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine slightly slanted, a little edge wear and rubbing. Light tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ;
Dell # 8467. ; 5¾" - 6¾" Tall; 224 pages;

"A bold new blend of dazzling imagination and startling insight by "The acknowledged king of science fiction." The 15 short stories include "I Remember Babylon," "Summertime on Icarus," "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Orbiting. . . ," "An Ape About the House," "Trouble with Time," "Before Eden," "Dog Star" and others.
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The Deep Range

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $3.25

Publisher: New York, NY, Signet : 1958

Seller ID: 001822

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine a bit creased, slanted, corners bumped, minor edge wear. Some yellowing but text is clean and unmarked. "Whaleboys: Don Burley-hero of tomorrow, tall, handsome. . . and shepherd of the mammoth whale herds which graze the seas, growing fat and healthy and ripe for man's dinner table. And Walt Franklin-mystery man of The Reefs. What secret from his past waited to plunge him into a life-and-death struggle with the sea? Could he conquer the old terror that kept him apart from his fellows and drove him to search for the treasures of the oceans which could change man's future?"; 12...
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The Ghost from the Grand Banks

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $4.45

Publisher: New York, NY, Bantam Books : 1991

Seller ID: 001823

ISBN-13: 9780553293876

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine/covers slightly creased, corners bumped. Some darkening esp. inside covers. Sticker has been removed from inside front cover taking part of the promotional blurb with it. A clean, bright copy. "It's the year 2012: a hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic. Two of the world's most powerful corporations, each headed by an eccentric and brilliant man, race to find a way to raise and preserve the doomed luxury ocean liner. Two multibillion-dollar technologies are tested in a plan to raise the ship that will stun the world and create a media feeding frenzy. The rival CEOs gather...
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The Hammer of God

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Bantam Books : 1994

Seller ID: 001824

ISBN-13: 9780553568714

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Spine/covers somewhat creased, slight spine slant, corners bumped, minor edge wear. Text is clean and bright. "In 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 Golia...
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The Sentinel

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $4.70

Publisher: New York, NY, Putnam Berkley : 1986

Seller ID: 000461

ISBN-13: 9780425093894

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Some ordinary shelf wear. Corners bumped and some darkening.

First in the Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy Series. Cover art and interior illustrations by Lebbeus Woods. Author and artist biographies follow text. Introduction by the author.
This book contains 10 stories, including The Sentinel -- the story that inspired "2001: A Space Odyssey", The Songs of Distant Earth -- the basis for Clarke's novel of the same title, and Guardian Angel -- precursor to "Childhood's End."; 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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The Songs of Distant Earth

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $3.45

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Publishing Group : 1987

Seller ID: 000187

ISBN-13: 9780345322401

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Slight crease/dent on front cover.

Thalassa was a veritable paradise -- home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth. Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. A fascinating novel by one of the masters of science fiction.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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The Songs of Distant Earth

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: New York, NY, Ballantine Publishing Group : 1987

Seller ID: 000458

ISBN-13: 9780345322401

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Slight shelf wear/corners bumped.

Thalassa was a veritable paradise -- home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth. Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. A fascinating novel by one of the masters of science fiction.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The Songs of Distant Earth

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $2.95

Publisher: New York, NY, Ballantine Publishing Group : 1987

Seller ID: 001371

ISBN-13: 9780345322401

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Covers a bit creased, mostly at hinges. Corners bumped, some edge wear/chipping.

Thalassa was a veritable paradise -- home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth. Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. A fascinating novel by one of the masters of science fiction.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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The View from Serendip

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $5.75

Publisher: New York, NY, Del Ray / Ballantine : 1978

Seller ID: 001817

ISBN-13: 9780345271082

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Corners bumped, slight edge wear. A clean, tight copy.

"Speculations on space, science, and the sea, together with fragments of an equatorial autobiography."; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Voices from the Sky

By: Clarke, Arthur C.

Price: $5.25

Publisher: New York, NY, Pyramid Books : 1971

Seller ID: 001818

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good+

Covers a bit creased, corners bumped, slight edge wear. A clean, tight copy. ""The universe is full of voices, calling from star to star in myriad tongues. One day we shall join that cosmic conversation, though it may be ages before we cross the megamegamiles sundering us from our equals, and our masters." Voices from the Sky is the log of a voyage which has only just begun-Man's odyssey from Earth, his first home, among the planets, to the stars, and across the universe. Arthur C. Clarke, distinguished author of such classics as 2001 A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End, has o...
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Category: Arthur C. Clarke