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Oct 14, 2013 · Ray Ward (One of the great fans of Arthur C. Clarke, who met Arthur for the first time in 1971, when Clarke was in London and delivered a lecture at the BIS headquarters.) David Baker (Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society and currently the editor of its magazine, Spaceflight.
Goliath's on-board supercomputer is named David and is very similar to HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The planet-killing comet in Greenland was named in tribute to the author, Arthur C. Clarke .
- Arthur Charles Clarke
- 1993
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. Clarke was voted Grand Master at the 1986 Nebula ...
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Arthur C. Clarke (who called me a colleague and friend, despite our only having met by mail) passed on today, after ninety years of a life that only could have happened in the century and civilization that he helped to shape. Arthur has long and deservedly been called one of the finest “hard” science fiction authors, for good reason.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, [3] inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time.
Apr 16, 2018 · Fifty years ago, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke set out to make a new kind of sci-fi. How does their future look now that it’s the past? By Dan Chiasson. April 16, 2018. The power of...
May 16, 2021 · Greetings, carbon-based bipeds! : collected essays, 1934-1998 : Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
