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FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in parallel with the script for the eponymous film, co-written with film-director Stanley Kubrick; and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the “Big Three” of science fiction. Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician from 1941–1946. He proposed a satellite communication system in 1945 which won him the Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Gold Medal in 1963. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1947–1950 and again in 1953. Clarke emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956 largely to pursue his interest in scuba diving, and lived there until his death. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998, and was awarded Sri Lanka’s highest civil honour, Sri Lankabhimanya, in 2005.

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1 (Extract from “Engineer Special Study of the Surface of the Moon,” Office, Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army. U.S. Geological Survey, Washington, 1961.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PART ONE PRIMEVAL NIGHT

Chapter 1The Road to Extinction

Chapter 2The New Rock

Chapter 3 Academy

Chapter 4The Leopard

Chapter 5 Encounter in the Dawn

Chapter 6 Ascent of Man

PART TWO TMA-1

Chapter 7 Special Flight

Chapter 8 Orbital Rendezvous

Chapter 9 Moon Shuttle

Chapter 10Clavius Base

Chapter 11 Anomaly

Chapter 12 Journey by Earthlight

Chapter 13The Slow Down

Chapter 14The Listeners

PART THREE BETWEEN PLANETS

Chapter 15 Discovery

Chapter 16 Hal

Chapter 17 Cruise Mode

Chapter 18Through the Asteroids

Chapter 19 Transit of Jupiter

Chapter 20The World of the Gods

PART FOUR ABYSS

Chapter 21 Birthday Party

Chapter 22 Excursion

Chapter 23 Diagnosis

Chapter 24Broken Circuit

Chapter 25First Man to Saturn

Chapter 26Dialogue with Hal

Chapter 27Need to Know

Chapter 28In Vacuum

Chapter 29 Alone

Chapter 30The Secret

PART FIVE THE MOONS OF SATURN

Chapter 31 Survival

Chapter 32 Concerning E. T.’s

Chapter 33 Ambassador

Chapter 34The Orbiting Ice

Chapter 35The Eye of Japetus

Chapter 36 Big Brother

Chapter 37 Experiment

Chapter 38The Sentinel

Chapter 39Into the Eye

Chapter 40 Exit

PART SIX THROUGH THE STARGATE

Chapter 41 Grand Central

Chapter 42The Alien Sky

Chapter 43 Inferno

Chapter 44 Reception

Chapter 45 Recapitulation

Chapter 46 Transformation

Chapter 47 Star-Child

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FOOTNOTES

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

PART ONE PRIMEVAL NIGHT

Chapter 1The Road to Extinction

Chapter 2The New Rock

Chapter 3 Academy

Chapter 4The Leopard

Chapter 5 Encounter in the Dawn

Chapter 6 Ascent of Man

PART TWO TMA-1

Chapter 7 Special Flight

Chapter 8 Orbital Rendezvous

Chapter 9 Moon Shuttle

Chapter 10Clavius Base

Chapter 11 Anomaly

Chapter 12 Journey by Earthlight

Chapter 13The Slow Down

Chapter 14The Listeners

PART THREE BETWEEN PLANETS

Chapter 15 Discovery

Chapter 16 Hal

Chapter 17 Cruise Mode

Chapter 18Through the Asteroids

Chapter 19 Transit of Jupiter

Chapter 20The World of the Gods

PART FOUR ABYSS

Chapter 21 Birthday Party

Chapter 22 Excursion

Chapter 23 Diagnosis

Chapter 24Broken Circuit

Chapter 25First Man to Saturn

Chapter 26Dialogue with Hal

Chapter 27Need to Know

Chapter 28In Vacuum

Chapter 29 Alone

Chapter 30The Secret

PART FIVE THE MOONS OF SATURN

Chapter 31 Survival

Chapter 32 Concerning E. T.’s

Chapter 33 Ambassador

Chapter 34The Orbiting Ice

Chapter 35The Eye of Japetus

Chapter 36 Big Brother

Chapter 37 Experiment

Chapter 38The Sentinel

Chapter 39Into the Eye

Chapter 40 Exit

PART SIX THROUGH THE STARGATE

Chapter 41 Grand Central

Chapter 42The Alien Sky

Chapter 43 Inferno

Chapter 44 Reception

Chapter 45 Recapitulation

Chapter 46 Transformation

Chapter 47 Star-Child

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

FOOTNOTES