Arthur C. Clarke's brilliant exposition on the building of the space-station, THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE, has caused such a stir that many people have forgotten that the English writer can also create convincing, spine-tingling fiction. We think THE FORGOTTEN ENEMY is as fine a tale as has flowed from his prolific pen.

A hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic, two of the world’s most powerful corporations race to find a way to raise and preserve the doomed luxury liner. The quest to uncover the secrets of the wreck and reclaim her becomes an obsession… and for some, a fatal one.

The crowning achievement of any professional writer is to get paid twice for the same material: write a piece for one publisher and then tweak it just enough that you can turn around and sell it to someone else. While it’s specious to accuse Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke of this, fans of both authors will definitely notice some striking similarities between Light of Other Days and other recent works by the two, specifically Baxter’s Manifold: Time and Clarke’s The Trigger. The Light of Other Days follows a soulless tech billionaire (sort of an older, more crotchety Bill Gates), a soulful muckraking journalist, and the billionaire’s two (separated since birth) sons. It’s 2035, and all four hold ringside seats at the birth of a new paradigm-destroying technology, a system of "WormCams," harnessing the power of wormholes to see absolutely anyone or anything, anywhere, at any distance (even light years away). As if that weren’t enough, the sons eventually figure out how to exploit a time-dilation effect, allowing them to use the holes to peer back in time.For Baxter’s part, the Light of Other Days develops another aspect of Manifold’s notion that humanity might have to master the flow of time itself to avert a comparatively mundane disaster (yet another yawn-inducing big rock threatening to hit the earth); Clarke, just as he did with Trigger’s anti-gun ray, speculates on how a revolutionary technology can change the world forever.

Ever done anything for no particular reason at all? Ever feel as if you were arguing with yourself? Do you sometimes get the feeling that you’re really two people who are at odds over the basic rights and wrongs of life?Probably you're merely schizophrenic, and there’s nothing to worry about except the prospect of life in a padded cell. But, on the other hand, perhaps. . . .

This story, first published in 1951, was in 1968 expanded by the author into the famous novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Paradise Lost: Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise — home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth.Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the colonists lived an idyllic existence, unaware of the monumental evolutionary event slowly taking place beneath their seas…Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. And suddenly uncertainty and change had come to the placid paradise that was Thalassa.

Paradise Lost: Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise — home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth.Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the colonists lived an idyllic existence, unaware of the monumental evolutionary event slowly taking place beneath their seas…Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. And suddenly uncertainty and change had come to the placid paradise that was Thalassa.

Paradise Lost: Just a few islands in a planetwide ocean, Thalassa was a veritable paradise — home to one of the small colonies founded centuries before by robot Mother Ships when the Sun had gone nova and mankind had fled Earth.Mesmerized by the beauty of Thalassa and overwhelmed by its vast resources, the colonists lived an idyllic existence, unaware of the monumental evolutionary event slowly taking place beneath their seas…Then the Magellan arrived in orbit carrying one million refugees from the last, mad days on Earth. And suddenly uncertainty and change had come to the placid paradise that was Thalassa.

On the planet devastated by a supernova explosion explorers discover a vault with remains of perished civilization…

Tik kelios salos bekraščiame vandenyne — Talasos planeta buvo tikras rojus, kuriame prieš daugybę šimtmečių įsikūrė Motininiu laivu atvykusi žmonių kolonija, kai mokslininkai nustatė, kad gan greitai Saulė pavirs nova.Štai tuomet Talasos danguje apsireiškia milžiniškas žvaigždėlaivis „Magelanas”, gabenantis savo triumuose milijoną šaltuoju miegu miegančių paskutiniųjų Žemės gyventojų…

«Arthur Clarke — dice The New York Times— rompe todas las reglas. Escribe best sellers que no tienen sexo ni violencia, ni tensiones familiares, ni héroes convencionales.» Su popularidad es enorme, sin embargo. Baste recordar el éxito de Cita con Rama y 2010 Odisea dos. En esta nueva gran novela de ciencia ficción, Voces de un mundo distante, Clarke aborda uno de sus temas favoritos: el choque entre dos culturas. Thalassa es un verdadero paraíso. Un puñado de islas, en medio de un vasto y cálido océano planetario, donde se ha instalado una pequeña colonia humana que había emigrado de la Tierra antes de la destrucción del sistema solar, ocurrida doscientos años atrás. Los habitantes de Thalassa son felices. Viven en un mundo idílico, con abundantes recursos naturales. Pero su tranquilidad se rompe con la aparición del Magallanes, enorme nave espacial que conserva un millón de seres humanos hibernados, sobrevivientes de los últimos días de la tierra. Voces de un mundo distante es una novela inteligente e imaginativa, que explora los límites del conocimiento y el destino del hombre y del universo. Otra obra maestra del gran Arthur Clarke.

Also published as “The Haunted Space Suit”.

Zahrada Rámova je sci-fi román A.C. Clarka a Gentryho Lee. Román je součástí tetralogie o Rámovi, mimozemské kosmické lodi, která prolétávala Sluneční soustavou. V angličtině kniha vyšla 26. září 1991, v češtině v nakladatelství Baronet roce 1994 a 2010. Překladatelem knihy je Vladimír Hanák.Román rozvádí děj předešlého dílu, Návrat Rámy, a líčí příběh Nicole des Jardinsové, Richarda Wakefielda a Michaela O'Toola, kteří zůstali v Rámovi poté, co z něj odletěl zbytek průzkumné posádky. Kniha má celkem 5 kapitol: Nicolin deník, V Uzlu, Setkání na Marsu, Svatební píseň a Soud.