The Space Trilogy

_Islands in the Sky_ , first published in 1954, sees Roy Malcolm win a trip to

the Inner Station, a space station rotating 500 miles from Earth.

_The Sands of Mars_ , set in the 21st century, has a group of pioneers

struggling to change the face of this inhospitable planet.

_Earthlight_ is set in a human colony on the moon.

This omnibus edition of Arthur C. Clarke's early novels shows the author of

2001: A Space Odyssey exploring space and time in adventurous and thoughtful

ways. Although the course of recent history has been different, these novels

offer a glimpse of what-might-have-been, as envisioned nearly 50 years ago by

the greatest sci-fi writer of them all.