The Hammer of God by Sir Arthur C. Clarke - ISBN: 9781473201408
Paperback
Doomsday asteroid threatens Earth. Can humanity survive? One last chance.

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    208 pages

  • Release Date

    23 May 2023

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Summary

The year is 2110. Humankind is entering a new golden age.

But when an amateur astronomer points his telescope at just the right corner of the night sky, he sees disaster hurtling toward Earth: a chunk of rock that could annihilate civilization.

While a few fanatics welcome the apocalyptic destruction as a sign from God, the greatest scientific minds of Earth desperately search for a way to avoid the inevitable. On board the starship Goliath, Captain Robert Singh and h…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473201408
ISBN-10:1473201403
Author:Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Gollancz
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:23 May 2023
Weight:188g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 22mm
Series:S.F. Masterworks
About The Author

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from King’s College, London. One of the most respected of all science fiction writers, he also won the Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers Prize,and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, ‘The Sentinel’. He lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008.

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