Clarke, Arthur Charles

The science fiction writer who forecasted satellite communication, shows, in text and computer generated illustrations, how human beings might set up settlements on Mars and transform the ecology of the planet so that water would flow and plants would grow.

Photos and text provide a speculative tour of life in the future.

Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to Jupiter to find out what happened to the astronauts of the spaceship Discovery and its computer, HAL 9000.

The best and brightest minds on Earth are assembled to intersect with Rama II. Informed of Raman technology, they still are not prepared for what they encounter.

After two robots help her escape from jail, cosmonaut Nicole des Jardins is reunited with her husband Richard. Joined by their children and other rebels from the Earth sector, they enter New York's labyrinthine underground hoping to find Rama III's secret inner workings.

Two frightened navigators, three frozen hibernauts, and a talkative copmuter named Hal ride on the spacecraft Discovery, hoping to unravel the mystery of a crystal monolith left on the moon by alien intelligence.