Val's Random Comments

For the next stop in short fiction month I selected an older story. The Star by Arthur C. Clarke was published in 1955 and won one of the...

This novel is probably one of the best known and most read science fiction novels of all time. Its connection with the Stanley Kubrick mov...

Last week I read Cixin Liu's The Dark Forest and in that novel the influence of Arthur C. Clarke is unmistakable. Since I am waiting ...

I've been reading Clarke for a couple of years now and I must admit I am beginning to develop a real appreciation for his work. Not al...

Prelude to Space by Arthur C. Clarke is my second read in the 2012 WWEnd Grandmaster Reading challenge. Last month I read Poul Anderson...

After his hugely succesful novel Rendezvous with Rama (1973), The Fountains of Paradise (1979) is the second novel of Arthur C. Clarke t...

Time to sample another SF Masterwork. I’ve read a number of Clarke’s other novel but none of them were written before 2001: A Space Odyssey ...

In March 2008 one of the titans of science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke died at the age of 90. At the time he was working on The Last Theorem ,...

The Songs of Distant Earth is one of Clarke's later novels, based on a shorter piece of the same name he wrote in the 1950s. In the for...