One of Gollancz's new Space Opera backlist promotion The only novel to have scooped all the major SF awards, including the Hugo, the Nebula and the British SF Award. Clarke's most famous novel One of the best novels Clarke has written' SUNDAY TIMES Soon to be a major film starring Morgan Freeman 'Quite masterly' THE TIMES 'Arthur C. Clarke is one of the truly prophetic figures of the space age' NEW YORKER Spawned several bestselling sequals.

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from King's College, London.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he also won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008.