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| | Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Clarke is considered one of the Big Three of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov; he is the only one still alive. | | | Clarke later complained that this had the effect of making the book into a novelisation, that Kubrick had manipulated circumstances to downplay his authorship. | | | Despite this, Clarke's style was open to humour and a degree of whimsy which salted its propagandist tone regarding scientific advancement with a sting in the tail. |
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence |
| | Authors like J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) and H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) (who said: "his rich language, his cosmic point of view, his remote dream-worlds, and his exquisite sense of the fantastic, all appeal to me more than anything else in modern literature") were very much influenced by his works. | | | Born in 1917 in Minehead, Somerset, England, and living in Sri Lanka since 1956, Arthur C. Clarke is best known for his 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) based on his short story "Sentinel of Eternity." His Against the Fall of Night (1948) and Childhood's End (1953) are also among his best titles. | | | Dunsany, in turn, lends his childlike sense of marvel and curiosity to his letters, wondering throughout their correspondence when the dark side of the moon will first be photographed. |
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| | Salon Directory |
| | As a boy, Clarke mapped the moon using a homemade telescope and became fascinated with science fiction after seeing his first sci-fi magazine, "Amazing Stories," in 1928. | | | Astronauts revere him too -- Neil Armstrong, in fact, had seen the Clarke and Kubrick depiction of a lunar base in "2001" just a year before he became the first man on the moon. | | | Kepler, who discovered the laws governing the motion of the planets, also composed a story about a Moon voyage in 1643. |
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| | The Enterprise Mission |
| | Clarke has been considered a visionary for the better part of the last century for a reason -- he is one. | | | For whatever reason (maybe simply because it is 2001?), Sir Arthur has chosen to put it all on the line and confront the "Owls," those in the know who (pun intended) prefer to keep the dark cloak of night on these amazing revelations. | | | But as Sir Arthur himself seems to be pointing out by his actions -- the ante has just been upped. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | Clarke has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of his century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. | | | Clarke has always been celebrated for his clear prophetic vision, which is fully on display in this book, but there are also many stories which show his imagination in full flight, to the almost inconceivably distant future, and to far-flung star systems. | | | This was followed by the book and film 2010 (1982), and the books 2061 (1988) and 3001 (1997). |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Clarke, Arthur C |
| | Along with HG Wells and Isaac Asimov, Clarke is rightly considered one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction. | | | Andrew Rissik asks whether Arthur C Clarke's The Collected Stories shows him to be a hard-nosed technologist or philosophical mystic and takes a look through Piers Bizony's lens in 2001: Filming the Future | | | In an 83-year odyssey, he has predicted satellite communications, man's landing on the moon and giant space stations circling the Earth. |
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| | Mimosa 27, pages 34-37. "Arthur C. Clarke, Fan" by Dave Kyle |
| | The night sky was fascinating to him and construction of his first telescope from bits and pieces is a testament to his remarkable ingenuity. | | | Those who understand him know the spirit and essence of Arthur Clarke, with his deeply-rooted connection to fandom and its early sense of wonder. | | | However belatedly, he was excited by that lost moment -- the 1928 Frank R. Paul cover was incredible to him because the painting so accurately depicted the appearance of the planet Jupiter, with its swirling clouds and Great Red Spot, as viewed by human beings standing on Ganymede. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke's Final Odyssey |
| | Clarke invented the concept of satellites in the 1940s - the Clarke Belt, where they orbit, is named for him. | | | The director has taken an option on "Hammer of God," Clarke’s last book, his 80th, he thinks. | | | Just like that, the man who expanded not only the horizons for science fiction writing, but, in many ways, the actual daydreams of the mankind, has completed "3001, The Final Odyssey." |
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| | 1.03: Arthur C. Clarke On Life |
| | ACC: The Brainman, which I write about in The Hammer of God. | | | I found him as warm, engaging, and tirelessly curious as ever. | | | Look, I've written six stories about the end of the Earth; they can't all be true! |
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| | Amazon.com: Childhood's End: Books: Arthur C. Clarke |
| | Clarke is fascinated by the potentials of human destiny. | | | The title of the book implies that this alien civilization lifts mankind out of its seemingly self-destructive course up to that of more intelligence and maturity (the end of childhood *hint hint*), but you never feel like that was actually accomplished, and Clarke doesn't bother to explain why. | | | The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke Quotes - The Quotations Page |
| | It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. | | | The time may come when men control the destinies of stars. | | | English physicist & science fiction author [more author details] |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke - the Visionary |
| | I wonder whether this is the reason why his marriage to Marilyn Torgenson failed in 1953 after a mere six months. | | | He founded a dive centre, and wrote a number of dive books, illustrated with his own underwater photographs. | | | So – who is this man who has shaped the way we live our lives today – and whose futuristic predictions have turned out to be so uncannily accurate? |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | Clarke's fiction is credited with combining flawlessly accurate technical details with such philosophically expansive themes as "spiritual" rebirth and the search for man's place in the universe. | | | Deemed on par with authors like Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, he is especially identified with his classic novels Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. | | | But Clarke's interest in writing his own fiction and non-fiction continued undiminished, and fortunately after a few years he was able to devote himself full time to writing. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke : Bibliography |
| | Clarke continued to write, becoming a distinguished science fiction author with dozens of collections of short stories and novels that described in detail the possibilities of human exploration of space. | | | Interested in science from childhood, Clarke mapped the Moon with the aid of a telescope of his own construction. | | | Clarke's most famous works are the four novels in the "Space Odyssey" series and the four novels in the "Rama" series, the last three of which were cowritten with former NASA scientist Gentry Lee. |
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| | Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: On Arthur C. Clarke |
| | When one says to a 75-year-old that it's time for you to stop doing the work you love and instead you should do something else, that something else usually turns out to be dying. | | | I also though 2010 was a good book, by the way — as good as a book that tried to answer questions best left unanswered could be. | | | I hope he's still producing his solo works in 2001 and beyond. |
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| | The Books: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke |
| | One of the most accomplished authors in the history of science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke has written numerous international bestsellers. | | | The Books: The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke | | | "Clarke once again sounds his grand theme…man is most himself when he strives greatly, when he challenges the very laws of the universe." |
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| | BBC News SOUTH ASIA Arthur C Clarke knighted |
| | One of the best known science fiction authors, Sir Arthur has written more than 80 books, including the classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. | | | Links to more South Asia stories are at the foot of the page. | | | The science fiction writer, Arthur C Clarke, has been knighted, more than two years after the title was conferred on him. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | It now seems probable that this whole affair was an attempt to embarrass the Government on the eve of Prince Charles' visit for the 50th Independence Day Celebrations (when he would have formally invested Sir Arthur with his knighthood 'for services to literature'.) | | | However, even the powers of the SF prophets fail at times. | | | Arthur C. Clarke also wrote non-fiction books and articles, many of them about undersea exploration (he is an enthousiastic skin-diver himself, one reason for his residence in Sri Lanka). |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke - Wikiquote |
| | Source: the essay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, in his book Profiles of the Future (1962); This statement is often referred to as "Clarke's Second Law" | | | Source: the essay Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, in his book Profiles of the Future (1962); This statement is often referred to as "Clarke's First Law" | | | Clarke may not have been first to say this. |
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| | Save the Gorillas: Arthur C. Clarke Gorilla Chat Media Page |
| | A bust of Sir Arthur appears in the Galle Face Green Hotel, a tribute to the final chapters of his novel "3001: The Final Odyssey," which he finished while staying there. | | | Left, is an award presented to Sir Arthur recognizing him as a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. | | | A nameplate in front of a moonscape welcomes visitors to the home of Sir Arthur, where it is not unusual to find a satelite dish, his very own invention, in the backyard. |
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| | The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation |
| | Clarke - The Authorized Biography - was published by Contemporary Books, Chicago, in 1992. | | | After leaving the RAF in 1946, he resumed his formal studies and was awarded a Fellowship at King's College, London where he obtained first class honors in Physics and Mathematics in 1948. | | | After attending schools in his home county, Arthur Clarke moved to London in 1936 and pursued his early interest in space sciences by joining the British Interplanetary Society. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke Quotes Part 1 |
| | Meanwhile, Clarke's science fact and fiction writings made him one of the great promoters of space exploration and a leading scientific visionary; some refer to him as the "poet of the Space Age." Among his prominent science books are | | | Sir Arthur Charles Clarke is among the giants of contemporary science fiction authors, and also a leading science writer. | | | After the war, Clarke took First Class Honours in physics and mathematics at King's College in London, which later elected him Fellow. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | Arthur C. Clarke stands like a colossus over the straits through which the twentieth century has passed. | | | Like Isaac Asimov, Clarke has carried the torch for space exploration throughout his life. | | | Whether it be on TV with Walter Cronkite as men landed on the moon or from his secluded home base in lush Sri Lanka, Clarke has articulately conveyed the possibilities of science to ennoble our species. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke Unauthorized Homepage |
| | He is the author of more than sixty books with more than 50 million copies in print, winner of all the field's highest honors. | | | Then the ripples spread out, washing up on character, society, soaking the whole book in wonder. | | | He is an author who takes an idea and drops it into a quiet pool of thought. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | Arthur C. Clarke: The Man Who Saw the Future (1997) (TV).... | | | Will we ever see 2061 and 3001 on film? | | | Hard to believe that he has so little film adaptations |
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| | The Kubrick Site: Clarke's 2001 Diary (excerpts) |
| | Stanley had only a week to do all his shooting, for the second crucial encounter between Man and Monolith.... | | | Excerpted from Lost Worlds of 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke, |
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| | Locus Online: Arthur C. Clarke interview |
| | Sir ACC: ''I don't have much time for reading, but I've just been sent four or five fantastic books on how the mind works. | | | Clarke won his first Hugo in 1956 for short story ''The Star''. | | | Sir ACC: ''My new book has just been edited and it is seven hundred pages. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke History Lesson: A Modern Allegory of the Cave |
| | Scientists try to derive a whole era from the famous "Oetzi" found within the ice of the Alps. | | | Clarke's short story "History Lesson" was first published in 1949. | | | Peter Brigg, on the other hand, notes that Arthur C. Clarke is interested in the limits of human knowledge and that he offers precise scientific extrapolation. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Arthur C. Clarke |
| | Astronomy: If we relate the life of a star to the… | | | Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C., born in 1917, British science-fiction writer, best known for writing the story on which the 1968 motion picture... | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | Hazardous Media: Arthur C. Clarke Content Page |
| | A conference about possible life existing on the Jupiter moon Europa. | | | See Arthur C. Clarke in his latest cybercast with Leonardo DiCaprio to save the endangered Gorillas! | | | "2001" star Keir Dullea, center, talk with author Arthur C. Clarke via the internet. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | The Lion of Commare & Against the Fall of Night | | | Became interested in science and gadget-building as a young boy. | | | Collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey, writting the novel at the same time as Kubrick wrote the screenplay, giving each other feeback and revisions. |
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| | Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Clarke's Law, later the first of the three laws, was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", in Profiles of the Future (1962). | | | Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction: | | | The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay; its status as Clarke's Second Law was conferred on it by others. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | Arthur C. Clarke is one of the original grand masters of science fiction, along with Heinlein, Asimov, and A.E. van Vogt.He became interested in science and writing at an early age, selling his first story in 1938. | | | Clarke's final resolution of his disaster scenario makes scientific sense, which is probably why Hollywood has not tried to make a movie out of this one. | | | Clarke draws each of his moon carrier passengers well, and better yet, they are believable people. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | Clarke's versatility and scholarship are also manifest in his first rate scientific and technical writing, which he has done in English, not academese, thus opening up new frontiers to young minds and to the public-at-large. | | | Some have called him "the father of comsats." In modesty and truth, Clarke has refused that honor. | | | Clarke has a gigantic list of other works. |
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| | Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke |
| | This book is for people who like to think, are intrigued by the place of humans in the universe, are genuinely interested in the human condition, and/or find the history of humanity to be fascinating. | | | There are also some interesting insights into Clarke's view on religion (which I pretty much agree with). | | | I have to agree with Clarke's intro disclaimer though that "the opinions expressed in this book are not those of the author". |
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| | CNN - Arthur C. Clarke - May 27, 1998 |
| | British-born Clarke, who has lived in Colombo for more than 30 years, is the author of scores of novels and science-fiction books and creator of several documentaries. | | | Last month Clarke's office said that he had been invited to London to receive his knighthood after the accusations against him were found to be false. | | | Clarke was to be knighted by Prince Charles in February during his visit to Sri Lanka, but asked for the investiture to be delayed after child abuse accusations were made against him by a British newspaper. |
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| | Rediff On The NeT: "Paedophile" Arthur C Clarke sparks protests in Lanka |
| | Clarke, 80, widely regarded as a visionary and author of the celebrated 2001: A Space Odyssey and some 80 other books, was quoted as saying in the interview published in London's Sunday Mirror that having sex with children was all right. | | | She said her group had indeed heard rumours about Clarke's activities, but being a small NGO, her organisation could not take it up as that would be like ''tilting at giants who have written books and been made chancellors of universities.'' | | | She said she intended to take up Clarke's revelations with the presidential task force for the protection of children and inform all concerned, including the police. |
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| | Arthur C Clarke Looks To The Future BBC World Service |
| | Scientist and author Sir Arthur C Clarke, has helped create the techno-world in which many of us now live and through his writings he has shaped our vision of the future. | | | Some people take his work more seriously than others. | | | But he has a reward of a different kind: a geostationary orbit in space – at 42,000 kilometres – is officially called 'The Clarke Orbit' in his honour. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | They helped him discover his scientific potential thus influencing the writings of his later years. | | | His dads name was Charles Wright Clarke and his mothers name was Mary Nora Clarke. | | | He had two brothers Frederick William and Michael Neal; also he had one sister named Mary Nora. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke Stands By His Belief in Life on Mars |
| | Clarke repeated several times that he was serious about his observations, pointing out that he sees something akin to Banyan trees in some MGS photos. | | | Cernan said that he has concluded there's little difference between science fiction and science fact. | | | WASHINGTON -- Noted space visionary and writer, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, believes that new images of Mars clearly show the red planet dotted with patches of vegetation, including trees. |
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| | Arthur C Clarke |
| | This exhibition celebrated Arthur C Clarke's life and his outstanding contributions to the worlds of science, literature and entertainment. | | | He said many would consider this idea 'too far-fetched to be taken seriously'. | | | But Arthur C Clarke is a visionary of far greater order and with science fiction stories such as 2001: A Space Odyssey he explores the limits of the possible. |
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| | Arthur C. Clarke |
| | In 1945, Clarke proposed the concept of positioning an artificial satellite in an orbit in which it circles the earth every 24 hours, thus appearing stationary to the locale below. | | | Cyrano de Bergerac - Literary Hero/Writer, born 1619, Long-nosed literary hero | | | Stanley Kubrick - Filmmaker, born 26 July 1928, The director of 2001: A Space Odyssey |
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| | BBC NEWS In Depth Festival of science Arthur C Clarke demands cold fusion rethink |
| | The author and visionary Sir Arthur C Clarke says society has made a huge mistake in rejecting out of hand the idea that cold fusion may be possible. | | | But when leading scientists failed to reproduce their results and Fleishmann and Pons retracted some of their early claims, cold fusion was dismissed as nonsense. | | | However, the research has gone on, with little funding and largely underground, and Sir Arthur said the results coming out of some labs demanded attention. |
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| | Sir Arthur C. Clarke at MysteryVisits.com |
| | If you have business with or for Sir Arthur, see his | | | * Focusing on Sir Arthur C. Clarke's life & work * | | | Questions Answered to see if we've addressed your issue. |
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