Giant silver ships appear above every major city in the world.

Travel by wire -- Retreat from Earth -- The awakening -- Whacky -- Castaway -- History lesson -- Hide and seek -- Second dawn -- The sentinel -- The star -- Refugee.

It takes one man, a unique to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the invaders"-- https://www.amazon.com/City-Stars-Arthur-C-Clarke/dp/1567231608 (as viewed on February 22, 2018.)

A brilliant new collection of Arthur C. Clarke's highest caliber short fiction.

Introduces readers to the author's shorter works, spanning his entire writing career, including "The Nine Billion Names of God," "Nemesis," "The Sentinel," and "The Songs of Distant Earth."

During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization

One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL ...