Short stories from one of the greatest Science Fiction writers of the Twentieth Century. 

The Other Side of the Sky reflects Clarke's reputation as a brilliant scientist - all the technical details are handled in a splendidly assured and dextrous fashion - and at the same time displays the unflagging fertility of his imagination, his mastery of the short story form (there is invariably a breathtaking twist in the final sentence) and his power to convey a sense of awe and wonder at the immensities of outer space and the fantastic possibilities for mankind that lie just around the corner.

Born in Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke has written over sixty books, among which are the science fiction classics 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, The City and the Stars and Rendezvous With Rama. He has won all the most prestigious science fiction trophies, and shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of the film of 2001. He was knighted in 1998. He died in 2008 at his home in Sri Lanka.