I would also include in that list Manifold:origin and "The Time Ships". The unfolding of "the Time Ships" at the end is absolutley incredible. Baxter is a fantastic "hardcore" science fiction writer!
To amplify: Mr. Clarke predicted geosynchronous satellites in 1948. Also, although he was perhaps not the first, he wrote the first novel (The fountains of paradise) about the technology of buckytubes and space elevators long before it was a glimmer in the eyes of engineers.
As to hist greatest work- by far I would have to say Childhood's End.
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I would also include in that list Manifold:origin and "The Time Ships". The unfolding of "the Time Ships" at the end is absolutley incredible. Baxter is a fantastic "hardcore" science fiction writer!
To amplify: Mr. Clarke predicted geosynchronous satellites in 1948. Also, although he was perhaps not the first, he wrote the first novel (The fountains of paradise) about the technology of buckytubes and space elevators long before it was a glimmer in the eyes of engineers. As to hist greatest work- by far I would have to say Childhood's End.