Imperial Earth (1975) is a saga about the colonization of the solar system. The thematic determinants of the novel are determined by extrapolations of scientific hypotheses related to interplanetary travel, and by the SETI program.
Zoran Živković, an excellent connoisseur of science fiction, made a selection of Clarke's best stories with the motif of first contact and wrote an extensive text in which he interprets them in detail.
Today, Eddard Stark is the Prince of the North and the ruler of Winterfell. But fifteen years ago, as a young man, he placed his sword in the service of Robert Baratheon.