About the book: 1998 / World critics call Arthur Charles Clarke (born in 1907) “Fantastic Number One." He collected a simply unprecedented harvest of all kinds of literary awards - Hugo, Nebula, Jupiter, J.W. Memorial Prize. Campbell, International Science Fiction Prize, etc. These assessments speak so eloquently for themselves that only one thing can be added to them: the three novels included in this collection are among the early and publicly recognized most successful works of the writer, and demonstrate three genres, three directions of his creativity... “City and Stars” - space opera…