Where to Start with Arthur C. Clarke
- Best entry point → 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Best standalone → Childhood's End
- Start The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke #1-5 series → The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
- What readers keep coming back to → Rendezvous with Rama
- Highest rated by readers → The City and the Stars
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Space Odyssey Series • Book 1
★ 4.38 BLT Score (338.0K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (338.0K) - 2
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke #1-5
★ 4.24 BLT Score (6.4K ratings)★ 4.3 Goodreads (6.4K) - 3
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The City and the Stars
★ 3.98 BLT Score (36.7K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (36.7K) - 6
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The Light of Other Days
by Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter
★ 3.88 BLT Score (8.3K ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (8.3K) - 8
2061: Odyssey Three
Space Odyssey Series • Book 3
★ 3.88 BLT Score (33.6K ratings)★ 3.62 Goodreads (33.6K) - 9
3001: The Final Odyssey
Space Odyssey • Book 4
★ 3.86 BLT Score (28.3K ratings)★ 3.6 Goodreads (28.3K) - 10
Tales of Ten Worlds: I Remember Babylon; Summertime on Icarus; Out of the Cradle, Endless Orbiting; Who's There; Hate; Into the Comet; An Ape About the House; Saturn Rising; Let There Be Light; Death and the Senator; Trouble with Time and Others...8467
★ 3.84 BLT Score (2.2K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (2.2K) - 11
The Fountains of Paradise
★ 3.79 BLT Score (31.9K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (31.9K) - 12
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More of the Best of Science Fiction and Fantasy
by Richard Curtis, Arthur C. Clarke, Siddig El Fadil, Karen Joy Fowler, Joe Haldeman, Roger Zelazny, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Nana Visitor, Orson Scott Card, Robert Silverberg, Robin Curtis, John Varley, Claudia Christian, Lawrence Watt-Evans
★ 3.50 BLT Score (57 ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (57) - 24
The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century
by Martin H. Greenberg, Greg Bear, Terry Bisson, David Brin, John W. Campbell Jr., Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Judith Merril, Frederik Pohl, Eric Frank Russell, Terry Farrell, Denise Crosby, Alexander Siddig, Melissa Manchester
★ 3.44 BLT Score (165 ratings)★ 3.61 Goodreads (165)
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