Arthur C Clarke Books

Giant computers floating in space, organic-looking craft and sparsely populated alien landscapes: this is the world of pioneering artist Chris Foss, whose book covers for Isaac Asimov, Arthur C Clarke and Philip K Dick distilled the look of sci-fi in

Some have called it "dystopian" and even "sci fi" (Monsters of Men, publsihed by walker, was also shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke award). While he "doesn't mind labels if they put books into people's hands," Ness feels, rightly,

A contemporary of such luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Larry Niven, Pohl is known to fans of the genre for such works as Gateway and Man Plus. He has won multiple Hugo awards (SF's version of the Oscars), and at this point has little,

His other works include 'The Circle of Reason', which won the Prix Médicis Étranger Award, 'The Shadow Lines' the Sahitya Akademi Award, In an Antique Land, The Calcutta Chromosome gave him the Arthur C Clarke Award which brought laurels for the

bleed into the mainstream – for instance, in 1956 Arthur C Clarke's The City and the Stars considered concepts that Hollywood got round to in the 2000s, in the trilogy of Matrix films. The difficulty of using books as museum exhibits is well-known.