Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) wrote a hundred books and
more than a thousand short stories and essays covering science
fiction and science fact in a career spanning more than six
decades. Among his bestselling novels are Childhood’s End, 2001: A
Space Odyssey, and Rendezvous with Rama.
In 1945, he proposed global broadcasting via communication
satellites in geostationary orbit. One of his short stories
inspired the World Wide Web, while another was expanded into 2001:
A Space Odyssey, which he cowrote with Stanley Kubrick.
Born in Somerset, England, Clarke was educated at King’s College,
London. He worked in the British civil service and the Royal Air
Force before turning full-time author in 1950. The recipient of
dozens of awards, fellowships, and honorary doctorates, Clarke had
both an asteroid and dinosaur species named after him. Queen
Elizabeth II gave him a knighthood in 1998.
Clarke lived in Sri Lanka since 1956, engaged in diving,
astronomical observations, and underwater tourism.
“Dazzling...wrenching...a mind bender.”—Time
“Brain-boggling.”—Life
“Full of poetry, scientific imagination, and typical wry Clarke
wit. By standing the universe on its head, he makes us see the
ordinary universe in a different light...[This novel becomes] a
complex allegory about the history of the world.”—The New
Yorker
“Clarke has constructed an effective work of fiction...with the
meticulous creation of an extraterrestrial environment, the sort of
extrapolation of which Mr. Clarke is a master.”—Library Journal
“Breathtaking.”—Saturday Review
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