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...

Stanley Kirk Burrell was one of eight kids who grew up in Oakland, Calif., the son of a police department secretary and her husband, who managed a legalized gambling club. The couple split in 1967 and the youngster spent much of his...

BILL KIRCHEN Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods Proper American 005 Americana fans who like their rockabilly on steroids, and who might enjoy taking a sonic tour down old Route 66 and through most vernacular American musical styles, will thoroughly enjoy Bill Kirchen's...