Arthur Clarke, writer and screenwriter, researcher and inventor, futurist and seer, who preferred to call himself an “extrapolator”... Whatever this talented Englishman did in his lifetime, the fruits of his inspired labor invariably became the property of all mankind. This is how Clark’s prose, which brought him fame as one of the best science fiction writers, has adorned world literature. This volume includes stories written from 1953 to 1999. Some of them are published in Russian for the first time.