Arthur C Clarke
Readers Choice Winner for January
And now . . . the end is near . . . and so we face . . . the final curtain . . . What’s that? We suffer from an overdeveloped sense of melodrama? […]
Read MoreSF Masterwork of the Week: A Fall of Moondust
Arthur C. Clarke was renowned for his Big Ideas. From the aeon-spanning future history of The City and the Stars to the transcendent glory of 2001: A Space Odyssey via nothing less than the destiny […]
Read MoreSF Masterwork of the Week: The City and the Stars
2014’s first SF Masterwork of the Week is Sir Arthur C. Clarke‘s magnificent 1956 epic, The City and the Stars, a novel expanded from the novella-length story ‘Against the Fall of Night’, which originally appeared […]
Read MoreOn This Day: Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead, Somerset, on the 16th December, 1917. He was the last of The Big Three to leave us, passing away in 2008 (Robert A. Heinlein died in 1988 and […]
Read MoreNew Book of the Week: the Ulitmate Egoist
The Ultimate Egoist is the first volume of The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, and contains the late author’s earliest work, written between 1937 and 1940. An acknowledged master of the short form – SF’s […]
Read MoreSF Masterwork of the Week: RINGWORLD
As regular readers of the SF Gateway blog will know, our good friends at SFX have kindly agreed to allow us to republish those articles from their SFX Book Club that relate to our SF […]
Read MoreFrom the SFX Book Club: RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA
As regular readers of the SF Gateway blog will know, our good friends at SFX have kindly agreed to allow us to republish those articles from their SFX Book Club that relate to our SF Masterworks […]
Read MoreFrederik Pohl (1919-2013)
All of us at Gollancz and SF Gateway are saddened to learn of the death yesterday of Frederik Pohl: author, editor, literary agent and fan. Pohl was a member of the influential SF group The […]
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Olaf Stapledon!
On this day, in 1886, Olaf Stapledon was born. The author of such landmarks of science fiction as Last and First Men and Star Maker, he has influenced some of the masters of SF – […]
Read MoreReaders’ Choice Winners for March and April
So, you’ve all heard the saying ‘time flies’, right? Well, there’s a second aspect of that saying that seems to be becoming more and more applicable: time flies – and occasionally the flight leaves without […]
Read MoreArthur C. Clarke’s THE CITY AND THE STARS
Every so often, when I know I’ve got a bit of time to kill and don’t want to do any ‘work’ reading, I grab an SF Masterwork off the shelf in the office and give […]
Read MoreNew Book of the Week: Profiles of the Future
If you consult The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction – and, of course, you DO, don’t you? On a regular basis – you will find the following in the Titles check-list at the bottom of the […]
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