@booklet {4513, title = {Rama Revealed}, year = {1994}, month = {1994}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Inside an alien artifact traveling through space, humans intending to create a good society actually create a dictatorship. Ultimately this is overcome. This is the last volume of the co-authored trilogy, although written mostly by Lee, and follows Clarke\’s Rendezvous with Rama. London Gollacnz, 1973; Collector\’s Edition illus. Bob Eggleton with an \“Introduction\” by George Zebrowski (vii-xii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1993. The other volumes are Rama II. London Gollancz, 1989 and The Garden of Rama. London: Gollancz, 1991, which includes, in the second half, anti-utopianism typical of Clarke\’s work. In addition, Lee wrote Bright Messengers. New York: Bantam Books, 1995, which is set before Rama II.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, US author}, author = {Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) and [Bert] Gentry Lee (b. 1942)} } @booklet {4126, title = {Beyond the Fall of Night}, year = {1990}, month = {1990}, publisher = {G. P. Putnam{\textquoteright}s Sons}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Sequel to 1953 Clarke, which is rpt. as the \“Part I\” (14-145). Part II (146-298), by Benford, is set far in the future where there are highly evolved beings, enhanced humans, and others at various stages of enhancement. Much of the story is about the reemergence of some who seek power over others and are willing to go to war to further their ambitions See the \“Afterword\” to 2004 Benford for the relationship among the three books.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, US author}, author = {Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008) and Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941)} } @booklet {3715, title = {The Songs of Distant Earth}, year = {1986}, note = {

The first version of what became the novel was published as \“The Songs of Distant Earth.\” If. Worlds of Science Fiction 8.4 (June 1958): 6-29. This was rpt. in Science Fantasy 12.35 (June 1959): 99-128; in his The Other Side of the Sky (New York: Harcourt, Brace \& World, 1958), 207-45; and in his From the Ocean, From the Stars (New York: Harcourt, Brace \& World, 1962), 295-320. A second version was published as a short movie outline in Omni 12.3 (September 1981): 77-79, 132; and rpt. exp. with an introduction (291-93) in his The Sentinel: Masterworks of Science Fiction and Fantasy Illus. Lebbeus Woods (New York: Berkley Books, 1984), 295-99 and illus. on 294.\ 

}, month = {1986}, publisher = {Ballantine}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Includes a description of a eutopia of abundance.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008)} } @booklet {1455, title = {Against the Fall of Night}, year = {1953}, note = {

Rpt. as Part I (14-145) in Clarke and\ Gregory [Albert] Benford (b. 1941). Beyond the Fall of Night. New York: G. P. Putnam\’s Sons, 1990;\ and New York: iBooks, 2005. Both the advertising and the back cover say that the book includes the added short story \“Jupiter Five,\” which was first published in If Worlds of Science Fiction (Buffalo, NY) 2.2 (May 1953): 4-28, 75 and has nothing to do with the novel, but there is no such story in the book. Exp. version of \“Against the Fall of Night.\” Startling Stories (Kokomo, IN) 18 (November 1948): 11-70. Rev. version entitled The City and The Stars. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956; rpt. New York: Signet Books, 1957.\ \ 

}, month = {1953}, publisher = {Gnome Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Flawed utopia. A city that has stagnated regains contact with a rural, telepathic utopia that has also stagnated. Cross-fertilization helps both. See also 1990 Clarke and Benford, where Against the Fall of Night is rpt. as Part I (14-145) and 2004 Benford where the relationship among the three volumes is explained in an \“Afterword.\”

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008)} } @booklet {1456, title = {Childhood{\textquoteright}s End}, year = {1953}, note = {

1953 Clarke, Arthur C[harles] (1917-2008). Childhood\’s End. New York: Ballantine. Exp. version of \“Guardian Angel.\” Famous Fantastic Mysteries (Chicago, IL) 1.4 (April 1950): 98-112, 127-29. The London: Pan, 1990 edition has a revised first chapter and a new \“Foreword\” (i-iv) by Clarke. DLC, HRC, L

Eutopia brought about by aliens at the end of the existence of homo sapiens and the beginning of the emergence of a higher being.

}, month = {1953}, publisher = {Ballantine}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Eutopia brought about by aliens at the end of the existence of homo sapiens and the beginning of the emergence of a higher being.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {Arthur C[harles] Clarke (1917-2008)} }