All the books by Arthur C. Clarke adapted to cinema and television, ranked

Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth. Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon’s surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers and human to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth. Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon’s surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers and human to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

Childhood’s End follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia, at the cost of human identity and culture. The true implications of the Overlords’ arrival may be far more dangerous, however.

It is nine years after the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, which resulted in the deaths of four astronauts and the disappearance of David Bowman. While an international dispute causes tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, both nations prepare space missions to determine what happened to the Discovery.

After an asteroid has collided with their spaceship, the five astronauts aboard suddenly have to decide who’s to live and who’s to die, since the crash has left their oxygen supply almost depleted. The initially cosy atmosphere soon turns grim and hostile, as a nerve-racking fight for survival ensues, no holds barred.