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Arthur C. Clarke and Ian Rankin ...
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" The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. "
Arthur C. Clarke
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Intriguing science fiction from Arthur C. Clarke ...
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, was most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in a collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick.
While Clarke had a few stories published in fanzines, in his early writing years, his first professional sales appeared in Astounding Science Fiction. Along with his writing, Clarke briefly worked as Assistant Editor of Science Abstracts before devoting himself to writing full-time from 1951.
In 1948 he wrote "The Sentinel" for a competition, the story being the basis for A Space Odyssey. It introduced a mystical and cosmic element to Clarke's work. Many of Clarke's later works feature a technologically advanced mankind, confronted by a superior alien intelligence.
His visions of space travel and computing sparked the imagination of readers and scientists alike.
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Death and the Senator
By: Clarke, Arthur C.
Published by: RosettaBooks
Martin Steelman, a senior United States Senator, has always trodden the path toward power
and the Presidency, with which he was obsessed. Towards that end he has sacrificed friendship, his marriage,
daughter and grandchildren, from whom he is estranged.more...
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Firstborn
By: Clarke, Arthur C.
Published by: Random House Publishing Group
The Firstborn–the mysterious race of aliens who first became known to science fiction fans as the
builders of the iconic black monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey–have inhabited legendary master of science fiction
Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s writing for decades.more...
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Time's Eye
By: Clarke, Arthur C.
Published by: Random House Publishing Group
ir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous
with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential,
Clarke is a genuine visionary.more...
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Sunstorm
By: Clarke, Arthur C.
Published by: Random House Publishing Group
When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writer ever,
teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who shares Clarke’s bold vision of a future where technology
and humanism advance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellar ambition and accomplishment.more...
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...and enchanting mysteries from Ian Rankin.....
Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh and has since been
employed as grape-picker, swineherd, taxman, alcohol researcher, hi-fi journalist and punk musician.
His Rebus books have now been translated into 22 languages and are increasingly popular in the USA.
An Alumnus of the Year at Edinburgh University, he has also been awarded two honorary doctorates,
one from the University of Abertay Dundee and one, more recently, from the University of St Andrews.
He was awarded the OBE in the Queen's Golden Jubilee Birthday Honours List in June 2002 and is now the
UK's number one best-selling crime writer.
Quotes:
"Ian Rankin is up there among the best crime novelists working today." ~Michael Connelly
"A novelist of great scope, depth, and power. . . . Brilliant." ~Jonathan Kellerman
"Skillful, serious, and eminently readable."-The Washington Post
"Ian Rankin just keeps getting better and better." -Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Bleeding Hearts
By: Rankin, Ian
Published by: Little, Brown
First published in the U.K. in 1994 under the pseudonym Jack Harvey,
this routine thriller from Edgar-winner Rankin tells the story of Michael Weston,
a fastidious British assassin whose life gets complicated when Hoffer, an American PI, starts to close...more...
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Question of Blood
By: Rankin, Ian
Published by: Aspect Warner
When a former soldier and recluse murders two 17 year-old students at a posh Edinburgh boarding school,
Inspector John Rebus immediately suspects there is more to the case than meets the eye.
Army investigators show up to snoop around the scene of the...more...
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Fleshmarket Ally
By: Rankin, Ian
Published by: Little, Brown
On a notorious street where propriety and decadence clash, in the basement of a newly
renovated bar, the bones of a woman and child are discovered beneath a cement floor. It's an unusually
gruesome find, even for Fleshmarket Alley. When Inspector John...more...
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Witch Hunt
By: Rankin, Ian
Published by: Little, Brown
She is Witch, and she makes for alluring prey, teasing her pursuers as she eludes them,
hunting her victims with breathtaking creativity, beguiling the most powerful men in the world with her dark
beauty and cunning. Witch is wanted by the world's most...more...
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The Naming of the Dead
Rankin, Ian
Published by: Little, Brown
The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference,
and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except one. John Rebus'
reputation precedes him, and his bosses don't want him anywhere near Presidents Bush...more...
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