Clarke, Arthur C.
British Science Fiction Writer 1917-
Born at Minehead, Somerset, United Kingdom, on December 17, 1917, Arthur C. Clarke was fascinated by science fiction and astronomy at an early ag...
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Clarke, Arthur C. (1917—)
British writer Arthur Charles Clarke's long and successful career has made him perhaps the best-known science fiction writer in the world and arguably the most ...
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Known as one of the modern masters of science fiction, English novelist Arthur C. Clarke (born 1917) created the immensely popular 2001 series, which became the basis for a classic film in 1968.Arthur...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Brigg
Arthur C. Clarke's extensive corpus of science fiction writing is an expression of his varied interests in the limits of man's knowledge as it is approache...
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Critical Essay by George Edgar Slusser
In pursuing what I call the "Odyssey pattern," I seek to define a central organizing structure in Clarke's fiction, one which bears interes...
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Critical Essay by Kingsley Amis
Mr Clarke has specialised in the exploration of space, and so enjoys an edge when he comes to write fiction concerned with it. A story set in the future is not thereby...
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Critical Essay by Thomas M. Disch
There are no criteria by which [the eighteen stories in The Best of Arthur Clarke] can be considered their author's best work. The first four are the rawest j...
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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke listed three wishes on his 90th birthday: for the world to embrace cleaner energy resources, for a lasting peace in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, and for ev...
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Helena Bonham Carter, Burton have second baby LOS ANGELES (Reut...
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Today is Saturday, Dec. 16, the 350th day of 2006. There are 15 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 16, 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a ...
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Brussels (dpa) - A mountaineer injured in the Pyrenees calls for
help on his satellite phone, then downloads Wagner's Ring Cycle to
his handset to take his mind off the agon...
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The international Cassini spacecraft went into safe mode this week after successfully passing over a Saturn moon that was the mysterious destination of a deep-space faring astronaut in Arthur C. Cl...
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COLOMBO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Turning 90 on Sunday, British
science fiction writer and visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke has
three birthday wishes: For E.T. to call, for man to kick his
oil habit and f...
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When NASA's newest Mars lander departs Earth this weekend, it will be carrying the words and art of visionaries from Voltaire to Carl Sagan.The "Visions of Mars" mini-disk secured to the lander wil...
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Clarke, Arthur C
Clarke, Arthur C. (1917—)
Arthur C. Clarke
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Critical Essay by Peter Brigg
Arthur C. Clarke still hopes to meet ET
