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...

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 age. In the 1930s he joined the British Interplanetary Society. After...

(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...

(born Dec. 16, 1917, Minehead, Somerset, Eng.—died March 19, 2008, Colombo, Sri L.) English science-fiction writer. He first published stories while in the Royal Air Force and, after earning a degree in physics and mathematics, wrote such novels...

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...