Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Arthur C. Clarke
Charting Nov 14, 1982 → May 18, 1997 · 67 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 9.50%
- week of Mar 13, 1983
- Career Power
- 421
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 222
- May 1982 – April 1983
- Peak Five Years
- 233
- June 1981 – June 1986
- Top-five weeks
- 25
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 67
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Dec 12, 1982
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jan 1988, after 5 quiet years · Apr 1997, after 9 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 books · 421 share-weeks of Career Power
Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010: Odyssey Two | #2 | 24 | 221.9 | ||
| 2061: Odyssey Three | #4 | 19 | 107.8 | ||
| 3001: the Final Odyssey | #2 | 10 | 65.6 | ||
| The Songs of Distant Earth | #11 | 4 | 11.3 | ||
| Rama Revealedwith Gentry Lee | #11 | 6 | 9.3 | ||
| The Garden of Ramawith Gentry Lee | #13 | 4 | 4.8 |
At their peak
1982 in books →Arthur C. Clarke's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1982 to April 1983. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener386
- 2Sidney Sheldon329
- 3Robert Ludlum318
- 4Jean M. Auel290
- 5Stephen King255
- 6William Kotzwinkle235
- 7Arthur C. Clarke222
- 8Judith Krantz212
- 9Jeffrey Archer208
- 10Ken Follett206
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.