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| Name: |
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
7288 words, approx. 24.3 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 of... summary from source:
 Biography of Arthur C. Clarke
6385 words, approx. 21.3 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 most... summary from source:
Biography of Arthur C. Clarke
5045 words, approx. 16.8 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 Times...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Childhood's End Summary
4,197 words, approx. 14 pagesChildhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke Arthur C. Clarke was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, England, a small coastal town on the Bristol Channel. At the age of twelve, he read his first science fiction magazine, a November 1928 issue of Amazing... summary from source:
 Childhood's End Information
2,686 words, approx. 9 pages
 <i>Childhood's End</i> is a science fiction novel by Sir Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in 1953, and a version with a new first chapter was released in 1990 due to the anachronistic nature of the opening chapter (the first attempts to...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by David N. Samuelson
1,703 words, approx. 6 pages
Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End is one of the classics of modern SF, and perhaps justifiably so. It incorporates into some 75,000 words a large measure of the virtues and vices distinctive to SF as a literary art form…. Unfortunately, and this is symptomatic of Clarke's work and of much SF, its vision is far from perfectly realized. The literate reader, especially, may be put off by an imbalance between abstract theme and concrete illustration, by a persistent banality of styl... summary from source:
Critical Essay by John Huntington
1,633 words, approx. 5 pages
I would suggest that it is its elegant solution to the problem of progress that has rightly earned Childhood's End that "classic" status it now enjoys. (p. 211) Clarke's myth of progress consists of two stages: that of rational, technological progress, and that of transcendent evolution. Many of his novels remain on the first stage and render technological speculations in painstaking detail…. But in his most far-reaching novels technological progress fails to satisfy, and ... Featured Essays
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