Sir Arthur C. Clarke has published a great deal of scientific nonfiction, most of it speculative essays about the future. These works include The Exploration of Space (1951), a Book-of-the-Month-Club selection; The Challenge of the Spaceship: Previews of...

Arthur C. Clarke is author of over fifty books, six hundred articles and short stories, several television series, a number of screenplays, and has even acted in movies and commercials. Clarke, in his seventies, is an avid scuba diver who has spent most...

Arthur C. Clarke is renowned not only for his science fiction--which has earned him the title of Grand Master from the Science Fiction Writers of America and the unofficial "poet laureate of the space age," as David Brin writing in the Los Angeles Times...

3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY. By Arthur C. Clarke. Ballentine; 273 pages; $25. Voyager; K16.99 OPPOSITE the opening page of "Childhood's End", Arthur C. Clarke's first major novel, there is an odd disclaimer: "The opinions expressed in this book are not those of...

LONDON - Fortunately for that old Greek travelin' man, Odysseus, he was barely able to avoid the clutches of Scylla, the man-eating monster, and Charybdis, the deadly whirlpool. But in making his odyssey through the perils of Wimbledon the young Greek travelin' man, Mark...