Order of Arthur C. Clarke Books
Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was an English author of hard science fiction as well as an inventor and futurist. He is considered one of the “Big Three” of sci-fi, along with Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein. He is most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was adapted concurrently into a very successful and critically acclaimed film.
Arthur C. Clarke published his first short story in 1937, Travel by Wire!. His first novel, Against the Fall of Night was published in 1948. It would later be revised as The City and the Stars. Below is a list of Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s books in order of when they were originally published (and in chronological order):
Publication Order of Space Odyssey Books
2001: A Space Odyssey | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
2010: Odyssey Two | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
2061: Odyssey Three | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
3001: The Final Odyssey | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Rama Books
(with Gentry Lee)
Rendezvous with Rama | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Rama II | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Garden of Rama | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Rama Revealed | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bright Messengers | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Double Full Moon Night | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Tranquility Wars | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of A Time Odyssey Books
(with Stephen Baxter)
Time's Eye | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sunstorm | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Firstborn | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Life Science Library Books
(by Alan E. Nourse)
The Body | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Man And Space | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Blue Planet Books
The Coast of the Coral | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Reefs of Taprobane | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Treasure of the Great Reef | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Interplanetary Flight | (1950) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Exploration of Space | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Boy Beneath the Sea | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Voice Across The Sea | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Profiles of the Future | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Voices from the Sky | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Promise of Space | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Into Space | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The View from Serendip | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
1984: Spring - A Choice of Futures | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Astounding Days | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
How the World Was One | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
From Narnia To Space Odyssey | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Exploration of the Moon | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Sentinel | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Reach for Tomorrow | (1956) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tales From The White Hart | (1957) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tales of Ten Worlds | (1962) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Nine Billion Names of God | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Lion Of Comarre | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Expedition to Earth | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Of Time and Stars | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Wind From The Sun | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Meeting With Medusa | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Star Science Fiction Books
(with Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Jack Vance, Richard Matheson, Philip K. Dick, Lester del Rey, Jack Williamson)
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 | (1953) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Isaac Asimov's Anthology Books
Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Aliens | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Robots | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's War | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Ghosts | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Christmas | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Camelot | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Detectives | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Werewolves | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Solar System | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Utopias | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Father Day | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isaac Asimov's Halloween | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Star Science Fiction Stories 3 | (1955) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Great Tales of Action and Adventure | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958 | (1958) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
50 Short Science Fiction Tales | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Bedside Playboy | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Novelets of Science Fiction | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures | (1967) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tales of Time and Space | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Futures Unlimited | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Futurists | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Alpha 3 | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Other Dimensions | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Aliens: 3 Novellas | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best of British SF 2 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Best of British SF 1 | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Science Fiction A to Z | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Space Odyssey | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fourth Planet from the Sun | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Greatest Scientists | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Science Fiction Stories | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Drabble II: Double Century | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Ultimate Alien | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Young Oxford Book of Aliens | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about The End of The World | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Hard SF Renaissance | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The World Turned Upside Down | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Galileo's Children | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Bug-Eyed Monsters & Bimbos | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Baen Big Book of Monsters | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Grave Predictions | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Infinite Stars | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: Against the Fall of Night was vastly re-written and re-published as The City and the Stars. Prelude to Space was re-titled Master of Space and later The Space Dreamers.
Cradle, Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed were co-authored by Gentry Lee. Richter 10 was co-authored by Mike McQuay. Beyond the Fall of Night was co-authored by Gregory Benford. The Trigger was co-authored by Michael P. Kube-McDowell. The Time Odyssey series was co-authored by Stephen Baxter. The Last Theorem was co-authored by Frederik Pohl.