Arthur C. Clarke Audio & Video

The world's best known writer of science fiction, Sir Arthur C Clarke was the first to propose satellite communications in 1945.

The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind....

From early stories like "Rescue Party" and "Breaking Strain," to classics...

Earthlight & Other Stories offers selections from Arthur C. Clarke’s extraordinary collection of stories. The late Arthur C. Clarke is surely the most celebrated science fiction author of our time. He is—with H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein—one of the writers who defined the genre.

At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft.

Earths timeline has become a patchwork of eras from prehistory to 2037. Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan each lead a group of refugees from 2037 in a race for knowledge as a mysterious entity watches, waiting.