Order of Arthur C Clarke Books

Order of Arthur C. Clarke Books


Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was an English author of hard science fiction as well as an inventor and futurist. He is considered one of the “Big Three” of sci-fi, along with Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. He is most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was adapted concurrently into a very successful and critically acclaimed film.

Arthur C. Clarke published his first short story in 1937, Travel by Wire!. His first novel, Against the Fall of Night was published in 1948. It would later be revised as The City and the Stars. Below is a list of Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s books in order of when they were originally published (and in chronological order):

Publication Order of Space Odyssey Books

2001: A Space Odyssey

(1968)

2010: Odyssey Two

(1982)

2061: Odyssey Three

(1987)

3001: The Final Odyssey

(1997)

Publication Order of Rama Books

(with Gentry Lee)

Rendezvous with Rama

(1973)

Rama II (With: Gentry Lee)

(1989)

The Garden of Rama (With: Gentry Lee)

(1991)

Rama Revealed (With: Gentry Lee)

(1993)

Bright Messengers (By: Gentry Lee)

(1995)

Double Full Moon Night (By: Gentry Lee)

(1999)

The Tranquility Wars (By: Gentry Lee)

(2000)

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Publication Order of A Time Odyssey Books

(with Stephen Baxter)

Time’s Eye

(2003)

Sunstorm

(2005)

Firstborn

(2007)

Publication Order of Life Science Library Books

(by Alan E. Nourse)

The Body (By: Alan E. Nourse)

(1964)

Man And Space

(1964)

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Publication Order of Blue Planet Books

The Coast of the Coral

(1956)

The Reefs of Taprobane

(1956)

The Treasure of the Great Reef

(1964)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Against the Fall of Night

(1948)

Prelude to Space

(1950)

The Sands of Mars

(1951)

Islands in the Sky

(1952)

Childhood’s End

(1953)

Earthlight

(1955)

City and the Stars

(1956)

The Deep Range

(1957)

A Fall of Moondust

(1961)

Dolphin Island

(1963)

Glide Path

(1963)

The Lost Worlds Of 2001

(1971)

Imperial Earth

(1975)

The Fountains of Paradise

(1979)

The Songs of Distant Earth

(1986)

July 20, 2019

(1986)

Cradle (With: Gentry Lee)

(1987)

Beyond the Fall of Night (With: Gregory Benford)

(1990)

The Ghost from the Grand Banks

(1990)

The Hammer of God

(1993)

Richter 10 (With: Mike McQuay)

(1996)

The Trigger

(1999)

The Light of Other Days (With: Stephen Baxter)

(2000)

The Last Theorem (With: Frederik Pohl)

(2008)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Interplanetary Flight

(1950)

The Exploration of Space

(1951)

Boy Beneath the Sea

(1958)

Voice Across The Sea

(1958)

Profiles of the Future

(1962)

Voices from the Sky

(1966)

The Promise of Space

(1968)

Into Space (With: Robert Silverberg)

(1971)

The View from Serendip

(1977)

1984: Spring – A Choice of Futures

(1984)

Astounding Days

(1990)

How the World Was One

(1992)

Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!

(1999)

From Narnia To Space Odyssey (With: C.S. Lewis)

(2003)

The Exploration of the Moon

(2020)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Sentinel

(1951)

Reach for Tomorrow

(1956)

Tales From The White Hart

(1957)

Tales of Ten Worlds

(1962)

The Nine Billion Names of God

(1967)

The Lion Of Comarre

(1968)

Expedition to Earth

(1968)

Of Time and Stars

(1972)

The Wind From The Sun

(1972)

A Meeting With Medusa

(1988)

Publication Order of Star Science Fiction Books

(with Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Jack Vance, Chad Oliver, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Jack Williamson, Gerald Kersh)

Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (By: Frederik Pohl)

(1953)

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Publication Order of Isaac Asimov’s Anthology Books

Isaac Asimov’s Worlds of Science Fiction (By: Isaac Asimov,Tanith Lee,Phyllis Eisenstein,Gene Wolfe,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Arnie Bateman,Alan Dean Foster,Martin Gardner,Randall Garrett,Rob Chilson,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,Richard S. McEnroe,Jeff Duntemann,R.N. Bracewell,K.W. MacAnn,G. Richard Bozarth)

(1980)

Isaac Asimov’s Near Futures and Far (By: Isaac Asimov,Frederik Pohl,Carter Scholz,Barry B. Longyear,John M. Ford,Jack Williamson,Darrell Schweitzer,John Brunner,Juleen Brantingham,Martin Gardner,Richard Wilson,Milton A. Rothman,Elizabeth Anne Hull,Sharon Webb,Somtow Sucharitkul,Lee Weinstein,Ted Reynolds,George Scithers,F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre,William Tuning,Francis E. Izzo,Paul David Novitski,Lee Russell,Seth S. Horowitz,Tol E. Rant,S. Dale,Julie Flores,Tony Sarowitz)

(1981)

Isaac Asimov’s Space of Her Own (By: Connie Willis,Ursula K. Le Guin,Pat Cadigan,Joan D. Vinge,Tanith Lee,Pamela Sargent,Lee Killough,Mary Gentle,Mildred Downey Broxon,Shawna McCarthy,Sharon Webb,Leigh Kennedy,Stephanie A. Smith,Cherie Wilkerson,Julie Stevens,Sydney J. Van Scyoc,Cyn Mason,P.A. Kagan,P.J. MacQuarrie,Janet O. Jeppson,Beverly Grant,Hope Athearn)

(1983)

Isaac Asimov’s Fantasy! (By: Shawna McCarthy)

(1985)

Isaac Asimov’s Fantasy! (By: Connie Willis,George R.R. Martin,Ron Goulart,John Kessel,George Alec Effinger,Robert Thurston,Tanith Lee,Lucius Shepard,Scott Baker,Lillian Carl,Juleen Brantingham,Lee Killough,Ian McDowell,Daphne Castell,Sharon N. Farber,Richard Kearns,Shawna McCarthy,Leigh Kennedy,Gregg Keizer,Kristi Olesen)

(1989)

Isaac Asimov’s Aliens (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

(1991)

Isaac Asimov’s Robots (By: Isaac Asimov,Rob Chilson)

(1991)

Isaac Asimov’s SF-Lite (By: Isaac Asimov,John M. Ford)

(1993)

Isaac Asimov’s War (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

(1993)

Isaac Asimov’s Cyberdreams (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

(1994)

Isaac Asimov’s Skin Deep (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

(1995)

Isaac Asimov’s Ghosts (By: Isaac Asimov,Terry Bisson)

(1995)

Isaac Asimov’s Christmas (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

(1997)

Isaac Asimov’s Camelot (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois,Eleanor Arnason)

(1998)

Isaac Asimov’s Detectives (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

(1998)

Isaac Asimov’s Werewolves (By: Isaac Asimov,Suzy McKee Charnas,Gardner Dozois)

(1999)

Isaac Asimov’s Solar System (By: Gardner Dozois)

(1999)

Isaac Asimov’s Utopias (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

(2000)

Isaac Asimov’s Father Day (By: Isaac Asimov,Gardner Dozois)

(2001)

Isaac Asimov’s Halloween (By: Isaac Asimov)

(2001)

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Publication Order of Anthologies

Star Science Fiction Stories 3

(1955)

Great Tales of Action and Adventure

(1958)

Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958

(1958)

50 Short Science Fiction Tales

(1963)

Novelets of Science Fiction

(1963)

The Bedside Playboy

(1963)

Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures

(1967)

Tales of Time and Space

(1969)

Futures Unlimited

(1969)

The Futurists

(1972)

Alpha 3

(1972)

Galaxy Science Fiction – October 1973

(1973)

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow…

(1974)

Other Dimensions

(1974)

Aliens: 3 Novellas

(1977)

The Best of British SF 2

(1977)

The Best of British SF 1

(1977)

They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures

(1979)

The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels

(1980)

The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction

(1980)

Science Fiction A to Z

(1982)

Space Odyssey

(1983)

Fourth Planet from the Sun

(1984)

Great Science Fiction Stories by the World’s Greatest Scientists

(1985)

Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow

(1987)

Science Fiction Stories

(1988)

Drabble II: Double Century

(1990)

The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection

(1993)

The Ultimate Alien

(1995)

The Young Oxford Book of Aliens

(1999)

Bangs & Whimpers

(1999)

Explorers

(2000)

The Hard SF Renaissance

(2003)

The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals

(2004)

The World Turned Upside Down

(2005)

Galileo’s Children

(2005)

Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology

(2006)

The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF

(2009)

From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul

(2009)

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

(2010)

The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse

(2010)

Bug-Eyed Monsters & Bimbos

(2011)

The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack

(2013)

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream

(2013)

The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack

(2014)

The Baen Big Book of Monsters

(2014)

Grave Predictions

(2016)

Infinite Stars

(2019)

Notes: Against the Fall of Night was vastly re-written and re-published as The City and the Stars. Prelude to Space was re-titled Master of Space and later The Space Dreamers.

Cradle, Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed were co-authored by Gentry Lee. Richter 10 was co-authored by Mike McQuay. Beyond the Fall of Night was co-authored by Gregory Benford. The Trigger was co-authored by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. The Time Odyssey series was co-authored by Stephen Baxter. The Last Theorem was co-authored by Frederik Pohl.