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About 136 pages (40,892 words) in 14 products |
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Arthur C. Clarke | | Birth Date: |
December 16, 1917 | | Place of Birth: |
Minehead, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
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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...
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 Arthur C. Clarke Quotes
5,052 words, approx. 17 pages
 Sir Arthur Charles Clarke ( 16 December 1917 - 19 March 2008 ) was a British author , inventor and futurist . See also: Childhood's End and 2001: A Space Odyssey Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Clarke's Laws 1.2 We'll Never Conquer Space (1960) 1.3 Space and...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Clarke, Arthur C. (1917—) Summary
962 words, approx. 3 pagesBritish 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:
 Clarke, Sir Arthur C.
348 words, approx. 1 pages(born Dec. 16, 1917, Minehead, Somerset, Eng.—died March 19, 2008, Colombo, Sri L.) English writer who is notable for both his science fiction and his nonfiction. Clarke was interested in science from childhood, but he lacked the means for higher... summary from source:
 Arthur C. Clarke Information
4,777 words, approx. 16 pages
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (born 16 December 1917) is a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke...
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 The Independent - London Arthur C Clarke's brainchild
01/13/1997: 1,147 words, approx. 4 pages Yesterday, 12 January 1997, was the birth date of Arthur C Clarke's most famous brainchild. In his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, that is the date on which Hal 9000, the intelligent computer, "became operational". Hal was the most memorable character in both the... summary from source:
The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Sci-fi master Arthur C. Clarke dies
03/19/2008: 535 words, approx. 2 pages RAVI NESSMAN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-19-2008 Sci-fi master Arthur C. Clarke dies -- Co-wrote space film '2001' By RAVI NESSMAN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 03-19-2008, Wednesday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions Biographical: ARTHUR C. CLARKE COLOMBO,... summary from source:
 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:
AP News Today in history - Dec. 16
12/16/2006: 599 words, approx. 2 pagesToday 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 British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea...
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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