Dreams really do come true. Many of the visions in Arthur C. Clarke's 1968 sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (the basis for the Stanley Kubrick film of the same year, whose Oscar-nominated screenplay Clarke cowrote) have indeed come to pass, from the hardware capability boasted by supercomputer HAL to automated voice-identification systems. Okay, others -- like colonization of the moon -- didn't catch on so well. Yet 79-year-old Clarke, a Sri Lanka resident who's authored almost as many novels as his age, keeps right on dreaming. The final installment in his Space Odyssey quartet has rocketed up the chart, fueled by 185,000 copies and 3 pressruns.
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST 1 THE PARTNER John Grisham, Doubleday, $26.95 2 2 3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY Arthur C. Clarke, Del Rey, $25 2 3 SOLE SURVIVOR Dean Koontz, Knopf, $25.95 5 4 TOTAL CONTROL David Baldacci, Warner, $25 8 5 EVENING CLASS Maeve Binchy, Delacorte, $24.95 4 6 THE NOTEBOOK Nicholas Sparks, Warner, $16.95 21 7 THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN Jacquelyn Mitchard, Viking, $23.95 26 8 HORNET'S NEST Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 8 9 SMALL TOWN GIRL LaVyrle Spencer, Putnam, $23.95 6 10 SILENT WITNESS Richard North Patterson, Knopf, $25.95 9
NONFICTION
1 SIMPLE ABUNDANCE Sarah Ban Breathnach, Warner, $18.95 50 2 MAKE THE CONNECTION Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey, Hyperion, $18.95 23 3 PERSONAL HISTORY Katharine Graham, Knopf, $29.95 6 4 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, Scribner, $24 25 5 8 WEEKS TO OPTIMUM HEALTH Andrew Weil, M.D., Knopf, $23 1 6 MURDER IN BRENTWOOD Mark Fuhrman, Regnery, $24.95 3 7 THE ARTHRITIS CURE Jason Theodosakis, M.D., Brenda Adderly, and Barry Fox, Ph.D., St. Martin's, $22.95 8 8 MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS John Gray, HarperCollins, $23 204 9 THE GIFT OF PEACE Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Loyola Press, $17.95 6 10 MASTERING THE ZONE Barry Sears, Ph.D., ReganBooks, $25 10
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 STONES FROM THE RIVER Ursula Hegi, Scribner, $12 2 2 SHE'S COME UNDONE Wally Lamb, Washington Square Press, $14 7 3 THE ENGLISH PATIENT Michael Ondaatje, Vintage, $12 17 4 THE BOOK OF RUTH Jane Hamilton, Anchor, $9.95 15 5 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE WOMAN'S SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, J. Read Hawthorne, and M. Shimoff, Health Communications, $12.95 21 6 SPONTANEOUS HEALING Andrew Weil, M.D., Fawcett Columbine, $12.95 10 7 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE Stephen R. Covey, Fireside, $12 315 8 SONG OF SOLOMON Toni Morrison, Plume, $11.95 19 9 REVIVING OPHELIA Mary Pipher, Ph.D., Ballantine, $12.50 99 10 A CIVIL ACTION Jonathan Harr, Vintage, $13 27
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
