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| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
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| Illustrator | Gerard Quinn |
| Cover artist | Gerard Quinn |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Sidgwick & Jackson |
Publication date | 1952 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 190 |
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.