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Islands in the Sky
AuthorArthur C. Clarke
IllustratorGerard Quinn
Cover artistGerard Quinn
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherSidgwick & Jackson
Publication date
1952
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages190

Islands in the Sky is a 1952 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is one of his earliest works. Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.

This is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that make up the Winston Science Fiction series that was published in the 1950s for a readership of teenagers. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was easily available to the readers. In this case, though, Roy Malcolm is an expert in aviation, its history, and its technology.

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