Have you ever read anything of Athur C Clarke

[BlackCat]

Vetty has apparently not read a word written by ACC - wonders if he is a singularity.

And yeah, this poll is valid since a banana option would be a pervertion

[Riesstiu IV]

I'm only able to read in Sumerian Cuneiform script.

[Zkribbler]

Back in the day, Playboy had some excepts from his works..."Rendezvous with Rama" and "Childhood's End" IIRC. I tried to read them but just couldn't get into his writing.

[Ben Kenobi]

It wasn't gripping enough eh Zkribbler?

[Ninot]

I've read 5 of his books, IIRC

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
It wasn't gripping enough eh Zkribbler?

Dunno. There's some writers with whom I just can't connect. Patrick O'Brien is another. I've tried three of his books, and nuttin'

At least with the Playboy stories, I could look at the pictures.

[GePap]

Lets see:

Childhood's End (1953)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
Imperial Earth (1975)
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
2061: Odyssey Three (1988)
Rama II (1989) (with Gentry Lee)
Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Gregory Benford)
The Garden of Rama (1991) (with Gentry Lee)
Rama Revealed (1993) (with Gentry Lee)
3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

And yet still so many I have not read yet.

[Ari Rahikkala]

I hope I won't be called a philistine for this, but my favourite Clarke book is actually A Fall of Moondust. It's a fairly straightforward novel, economic in description and characterisation, but the beauty is that almost every event is so... obvious. A decent understanding of physics will predict half of the novel's plot for you. It's a shame there turned out to be no seas of moondust on Luna, because except for the lack of dust to sink into, A Fall of Moondust is one of the only science fiction novels I've ever read that not only gives you a feel of "this could happen" but "this would happen".

As for other Clarke that I've read...

- the Space Odyssey series
- Childhood's End
- The Fountains of Paradise
- The Songs of Distant Earth

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by GePap
Lets see:

Childhood's End (1953)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
Imperial Earth (1975)
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
2061: Odyssey Three (1988)
Rama II (1989) (with Gentry Lee)
Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Gregory Benford)
The Garden of Rama (1991) (with Gentry Lee)
Rama Revealed (1993) (with Gentry Lee)
3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

And yet still so many I have not read yet.

I'm fairly sure I've read the list above plus a few others. Read the new stuff if you haven't, the Time's Odyssey series he co-wrote with Stephen Baxter (who is also a great writer in and of himself) ... pretty interesting stuff

[Winston]

I will highly recommend The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke, Tom Doherty Associates, 2002 - ISBN 0-312-87860-5.

At 966 pages, it contains everything where short stories are concerned. 104 stories spanning more than six decades of Clarke's work.

amazon.com has it available at $13.57. I don't see how anyone who admires this great author could afford to go without it.

[Soltz]

I think the first SF book I ever read might have been one of his novels. I think it was called "The City and the Stars"

[Nostromo]

I read 2001 and the two sequels when I was a kid. Can't say it was the highlight of my life...

[Whoha]

Richter Ten.

[Impaler[WrG]]

I have a The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke book Winston mentions and I've read it cover to cover, its an amazing value vs buying them in the many smaller collections (especially cause the smaller ones are so non-chronological and their story picks repeat the most popular stores many times you would kill many trees unnecessarily).

I've read most of the Novel as well, but a few have escaped me such as Richter Ten.

A few that I dis-recommend, Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Gregory Benford) and Cradle also co-authored with that Beford hack.

"Beyond the Fall of Night" seems to be a re-make of "The City and the Stars" (which is the one I've read, I find it ends weaker then it starts but is overall excellent) itself an expansion of a shorter novella "Against the Fall of Night" (thus explaining the title of the 3rd book).

BFN pairs this 3rd rehashing with a second half that continues the downward trend with a ridiculous set of new characters with the original hero making tired cameos *bleeech* Anyone else find this one to be sub-par?

[Kuciwalker]

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