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One of the best known science fiction authors thanks to his work on the classic SF film, 2001, his TV series and his 1945 prediction of the communications satellite, Clarke is of the hard technology school. His visions of the future often involve the arrival of some advanced alien technology, and picture a world where current organised religion has outlasted its usefulness. Look out for The City and the Stars, a lovely quest story with a real sense of wonder as a dying, high-tech city finds a new future, and Rendezvous with Rama, probably his best development of the shock arrival of an alien artefact.

2001 -
The book of the most remarkable film of the 1960s. With 2001 looming large it's tempting to compare it to reality, but that's not the point. A strange black monolith is discovered on the moon. Its broadcast is tracked to one of Jupiter's moons - and the Jupiter probe has its mission re-written. The trouble is, the only one who knows what's going on is the onboard computer HAL, and he's insane.

2010 -
The less impressive sequel to 2001. The Leonov, a joint soviet/US team heads out to Jupiter to try to find out what happened and recover whatever survived. They encounter the super monolith, HAL, a transformed Dave Bowman - and a new sun.

2061 -
And so it continued.. With the return of Halley’s Comet and the implications of Jupiter’s conversion into a mini-sun examined, 2061 brings back HAL and Bowman once more. The technical details of Clarke’s future continue to be refined with, for instance, cold fusion drives for the ships.

3001 -
(Probably) the final sequel, 3001 ties up many loose ends. It brings back astronauts Frank Poole and Dave Bowman along with computer HAL - even if the last two are merged into a program running in the great monolith on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Most of the book is taken up with the two themes of Frank Poole’s defrosting after a millennium in space and the attempt to prevent the monolith from destroying the solar system. Both are managed with Clarke’s usual mixture of smoothness and naivety.

3001

The City and the Stars -
This story of the last city on the Earth, which has survived for a thousand million years, sees a rogue individual invested with a sense of wonder, wanting to go beyond a city where no one has any interest in anything but the status quo. Rather wooden characters, but a genuine, heart-lifting quest that survives despite its age.

Rendezvous with Rama -
When an enormous alien artefact enters the solar system it causes more than a little chaos. A probe is sent to discover Rama's secrets, giving plenty of opportunity for strange discoveries and surprises. It's a real surprise this wasn't hasn't been made a film, as it's classic material. As usual, don't expect too much of Clarke's characters, but do expect, as they found on looking into Tutankhamen's tomb "something wonderful".

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