- Fiction, Space and time, Time travel, Science fiction
Humanity must try to learn to work together while threatened by extinction from a deadly sunstorm; meanwhile the mysterious Firstborn are observing in silence.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 330
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Gollancz, کتابسرای تندیس
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- per, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780575078017
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“بیسِسا دات، مات و مبهوت، نفسش را بیرون داد.”
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. These along with his science fiction writings eventuall
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