Arthur C. Clarke

"The Light of Other Days tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses quantum physics to enable people everywhere to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. This new technology amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy - forever." "Then, as men and women scramble to absorb this shock, the same technology...

"Arthur C. Clarke is one of this century's most visionary and versatile thinkers. The author of more than eighty books of fiction and nonfiction, Clarke writes with a unique combination of scientific erudition, imagination, and insatiable curiosity that has mesmerized and inspired countless numbers of readers. Clarke has collected his nonfiction works into one volume. With new introductions to each decade's body of work, Clarke offers both personal...

A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.

"An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out -- a billion kilometers to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them ..."

American and Soviet astronauts go to Jupiter in an attempt to solve the puzzle of the original Discovery flight made in 2001.

Omnipotent aliens arrive to save humanity from self-destruction. Under their benign gaze, war, famine and injustice become things of the past. But a small group of people are beginning to question whether this "Golden Age of Man" comes at a secret and terrible price. And when the Supervisor for Earth, Karellen, finally reveals his true form to the world, the sight is as profound as it is disturbing.

A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.