ARTHUR C. CLARKE’S

VENUS PRIME

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Arthur C. Clarke is the world-renowned author of such science fiction classics as 2001: A Space Odyssey, for which he shared an Oscar nomination with director Stanley Kubrick, and its pop­ular sequels, 2010: Odyssey Two, 2061: Odyssey Three, and 3001: Final Odyssey; the highly acclaimed The Songs of Distant Earth; the bestselling collection of original short stories, The Sentinel; and over two dozen other books of fiction and non-fiction. He received the Marconi International Fellowship in 1982. He resides in Sri Lanka, where he continues to write and consult on issues of science, technology, and the future.

PAUL PREUSS

Paul Preuss began his successful writing career after years of producing documentary and television films and writing screen-plays. He is the author of thirteen novels, including Venus Prime: Volumes 1-4, Secret Passages, and the near-future thrillers Core, Human Error, and Starfire. His non-fiction has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Besides writing, he has been a science consultant for several film companies. He lives in San Francisco, California.

“Like Asimov’s Caves of Steel, this is a cutting-edge synthesis of the crime and SF genres, with both elements feeding vigorously into each other . . . With a spe­cial selection of computer-generated blueprints of vehicles and robots, this is definitely a series to follow."

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