Travel by wire -- Retreat from Earth -- The awakening -- Whacky -- Castaway -- History lesson -- Hide and seek -- Second dawn -- The sentinel -- The star -- Refugee.

One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL ...

When the silent spacecraft arrived and took the light from the world, no one knew what to expect.

A brilliant new collection of Arthur C. Clarke's highest caliber short fiction.

Introduces readers to the author's shorter works, spanning his entire writing career, including "The Nine Billion Names of God," "Nemesis," "The Sentinel," and "The Songs of Distant Earth."

During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization