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Arthur C. Clarke | | Birth Date: |
December 16, 1917 | | Place of Birth: |
Minehead, England | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Arthur C(harles) Clarke
7,288 words, approx. 24 pages
 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... summary from source:
 Biography of Arthur C. Clarke
6,385 words, approx. 21 pages
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... summary from source:
Biography of Arthur C. Clarke
5,045 words, approx. 17 pages
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...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Clarke, Arthur C. (1917—) Summary
962 words, approx. 3 pages 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 popular foreign-born science fiction writer in the United States. Clarke is best... summary from source:
 Clarke, Arthur C Summary
524 words, approx. 2 pagesBritish 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 age. In the 1930s he joined the British Interplanetary Society. After... summary from source:
 Arthur C. Clarke Information
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Sir Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke 2005-09-09.png}} | Arthur C. Clarke meeting with fans, at his home office in Colombo, Sri Lanka . Born 16 December 1917 ( 1917-12-16 ) (age 90) Minehead , Somerset , United Kingdom Occupation Author , Inventor...
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 AP News Arthur C. Clarke still hopes to meet ET
12/17/2007: 336 words, approx. 1 pagesScience 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 evidence of extraterrestrial beings."I have always believed that we are not... summary from source:
Reuters North American News Service Reuters People News Summary
12/17/2007: 333 words, approx. 1 pages Following is a summary of people news briefs compiled from stories that have run separately and are available in full on the file. Helena Bonham Carter, Burton have second baby LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British actress Helena Bonham Carter has given birth to...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by George Edgar Slusser
4,501 words, approx. 15 pages
In pursuing what I call the "Odyssey pattern," I seek to define a central organizing structure in Clarke's fiction, one which bears interesting and precise analogies to the writer's cultural and social situation and hence to ours. If all literature possesses such significant structures, Clarke's work is of particular interest for its angle of vision—here is a scientist writing about the quandary of modern scientific man, drawing on deep and persistent currents of We... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Peter Brigg
3,673 words, approx. 12 pages
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 approached through the scientific method. Three principal types of work can be traced in his writing…. Clarke's best known approach is precise scientific extrapolation that depends upon detailed scientific knowledge carefully explained to the reader to communicate Clarke's fascination with the possibilities at the frontiers of sc... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Kingsley Amis
305 words, approx. 1 pages
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 a prophecy, and he is too good a novelist to make the confusion; but an intimate knowledge of the possible and the plausible greatly assists in that naturalising of the marvellous which is the characteristic achievement of the best science fiction. With the heavy stuff out of the way, let it be said at once that Mr Clarke's new novel [...
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