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Sands of Mars. Earthlight

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Sands of Mars. Earthlight
14.99 €
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was an English science fiction writer who, along with Asimov and Heinlein, was one of the big three founding fathers of the NF genre. "The City and the Stars", "Date with Rama", "Fountains of Paradise" - these titles are dear to every science fiction connoisseur! All his life Clark sought to popularize science, and his works are full of insights, through the years turned into real discoveries. Based on Clarke's screenplay, Stanley Kubrick directed the movie "A Space Odyssey". Later the script became a full-fledged novel and made Clark the brightest star of science fiction.
The collection includes the writer's early novels, "The Sands of Mars" and "Earthlight", which raise the problems of extraterrestrial settlements. Colonists of Mars, Venus, satellites of the largest planets are desperate for help. Earth, in their view, does little or nothing for its neighbors. Meanwhile, humans lack water, food, air purification facilities, not to mention minimal safety guarantees, because space is a harsh, inhospitable place. The eternal tension between the metropolis and the frontier erupts into a dangerous confrontation.....
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