Thirty-five titles by the celebrated science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, the author of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” among other classics, will be released in digital form for the first time in the United States, the independent e-book publisher RosettaBooks said on Wednesday.
The e-books are on sale now.
The eBook collection will include, of course, Mr. Clarke’s two best known works, “2001,” which was the basis of the later Stanley Kubrick film, and “Childhood’s End,” about how aliens bring about an evolution in the human race.
RosettaBooks said each work from Mr. Clarke, who died in 2008 at age 90, would sell for $8.99.
Among the other volumes for sale are the rest of the odyssey series: “2010: Odyssey Two,” “2061: Odyssey Three,” “3001: The Final Odyssey” and the novels “Dolphin Island,” about an odd community that studies marine mammals — it also became a video game — and “The Sands of Mars.”
Leslie Kaufman writes about the publishing industry. Follow @leslieNYT on Twitter.
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