The final work from the brightest star in science fiction's galaxy. Arthur C Clarke, who predicted the advent of communication satellites and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey completes a lifetime career in science fiction with a masterwork. 30 light years away, a race known simply as the One Point Fives are plotting a dangerous invasion plan, one that will wipe humankind off the face of the Earth... Meanwhile, in Sri Lanka, a young astronomy student, Ranjit Subramanian, becomes obsessed with a three-hundred-year-old theorem that promises to unlock the secrets of the universe. While Ranjit studies the problem, tensions grow between the nations of the world and a UN taskforce headed up by China, America and Russia code-named Silent Thunder begins bombing volatile regimes into submission. On the eve of the invasion of Earth a space elevator is completed, helped in part by Ranjit, which will herald a new type of Olympics to be held on the Moon. But when alien forces arrive Ranjit is forced to question his own actions, in a bid to save the lives of not just his own family but of all of humankind. Co-written with fellow grand master Frederik Pohl, The Last Theorem not only provides a fitting end to the career one of the most famous names in science fiction but also sets a new benchmark in contemporary prescient science fiction. It tackles with ease epic themes as diverse as third world poverty, the atrocities of modern warfare in a post-nuclear age, space elevators, pure mathematics and mankind's first contact with extra-terrestrials.

The Last Theorem

Science Fiction & Fantasy

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

frederik-pohl

Science Fiction

Voyager

Science Fiction Today and Tomorrow: A Discursive Symposium

<p>A critical symposium on science fiction, this book features essays (by Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, George Zebrowski, Frank Herbert, Theodore Sturgeon, Alan E. Nourse, Thomas N. Scortia, Reginald Bretnor, James Gunn, Alexei and Cory Panshin, Poul Anderson, Hal Clement, Anne McCaffrey, Gordon R. Dickson, and Jack Williamson) dealing with such subjects as: the role of science fiction; the publishing of science fiction; science fiction and the visual media; science fiction and a world of crisis; science fiction, morals, and religion; science fiction and man's adaptation to change; science fiction as the imaginary experiment; science fiction in the age of space; science fiction, new trends and old; the creation of imaginary worlds; and creation of imaginary beings; romance and glamour in science fiction; plausibility in science fiction; and science fiction, teaching, and criticism. A bibliography of books discussing science fiction is included.</p>

Jack Williamson

Ben BOVA

Gordon R. Dickson

Hal Clement

Theodore Sturgeon

Frank, Herbert

Anne McCaffrey

Poul Anderson

Harper Row Publishers

1st edition 1st printing paperback printing, vg++ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Alternating Currents

Penguin??Books

<p>Penguin paperback, 1979 printing. Something of a minor sf classic, by the heralded team of Pohl and Kornbluth.  First serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction, October and November 1957. The Earth has been torn away from the Sun, kidnapped by a runaway planet , whose inhabitants - enigmatic, utterly alien Pyramids - have their own plans for Earth's resources. And humankind, depending for warmth on a constantly renewed but woefully inadequate Moon, wracked by hunger and ruled by a slavish conformity to tradition, is dying out. But there are those who defy convention and refuse to give in. Feared and persecuted by the ordinary citizens, these 'Wolves' are preparing to fight back against the Pyramids.</p>

Wolfbane

C.M. Kornbluth

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Search the Sky

Bright and Clean. 1974 printing. Minor edge wear and rubs, minor page age tanning. 342 pages..

Literature & Fiction

James Gunn

History & Criticism

Penguin

Demon in the Skull

Contemporary

Undersea City

Dobson Books Ltd

Hardcover issued in 1980, reprinting this publisher's 1960 edition. Uncommon except in ex-library state. This novel was first serialized in Galaxy Magazine in 1956, and published in book form in 1957. Pohl has a reputation of one of SF's master satirists; this novel is about a world in the throes of a low-intensity global war, which appears to be an amplified representation of the Vietnam War (in which the U.S. was just becoming involved).

Slave Ship

Dennis Dobson

The Merchants' War

St.Martin's

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