Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur Charles Clarke (Minehead (Somerset), 16 december 1917 - Colombo (Sri Lanka), March 19, 2008[1] ) was an influential British science fiction author, inventor andfuturologist. He belonged to the big three of SF in the 20th century, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. He was also a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, former Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society and a member of the Academy Of Astronautics.



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[hide] *1 early life  ==Life Course[ Edit] == As a child was fascinated by the stars and Clarke he devoured science fiction stories, mostly from the United States as pulp magazines brought by British seamen. After high school, where he excelled in the science subjects, he could not study further by a lack of funds. During the Second World War he was given the chance for his technical skills. He joined the Technical Department of the RAF as a radar specialist and worked at the prominent improvement. Because of this, the Royal Air Force win the battle of Britain . He waved off as Flight Lieutenant, a degree higher than a fighter pilot. This gave Clarke after the war the opportunity to study. He passed with flying colours at the King's College London in basic and applied mathematics and in physics. In 1945 Clarke devised the principle of the geostationary communications satellite. He received several honors, including the Marconi International Fellowship. In honor of him, the geostationary orbit also known as the Clarke Orbit. Another idea of him is the space elevator, geostationary orbit between the Earth and a cable, through which a ' lift ' people and material back into space relatively cheaply and alternate world. There are more and more engineers and researchers who believe that this in the relatively near future indeed is a viable concept.
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Clarke was an avid diver and from 1956 he moved to the then Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ), where he could practice his hobby all year. In addition to his British nationality, he was also a naturalized Sri Lankan.

Arthur c. Clarkes probably best-known book is 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on the screenplay that he wrote with Stanley Kubrick for his film of the same name, which in turn was based on Clarke's short story The Sentinel. The 1968 film was groundbreaking and is considered a milestone in film history. Clarke was, along with Kubrick, even nominated for an Oscar. Clarke wrote a number of sequels on 2001, the first of which is made into a film, 2010, likewise.

Clarke was also known by different popular scientific books he wrote, mainly about space travel and the future. He often also wrote a preface for popular science books of other writers. He himself manufactured in the 80 's a popular TV series: "Arthur c. Clarkes wonderful world" in which he examined claims of mostly pseudoscientific writers on the paranormal, Atlantis and the like.

Clarke brought together with Walter Cronkite report on Apollo-Moon expeditions.

Clarke was in 1953 married to Marilyn Mayfield, a 22-year-old divorced American who had a son from her previous marriage. They divorced after just six months and although the marriage was only officially disbanded in 1964. "The marriage was incompatible from the beginning," said Clarke. [2]  according to rumors[3]  Arthur Clarke was homosexual but he has never confirmed that. In his biography of Stanley Kubrick mentioned John Baxter Clarkes homosexuality as one of the reasons that he moved to Ceylon because there was more tolerance towards gays than in the England of the 1950s. [4]  Michael Moorcock, also a well-known SF writer, wrote of Clarke: "Everyone knew he was gay. In the 1950s I'd go out drinking with his boyfriend. We with his proteges, western and eastern, and their families: people who had only the most generous praise for his kindness.Self-absorbed he might be, and a teetotaller, but an impeccable gent through and through "<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Sir Arthur Clarke was knighted in 2000 by the British Queen for his merits.

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 * 1950- Interplanetary Flight
 * 1951- Prelude to Space
 * 1951- The Sands of Mars
 * 1951- The exploration of Space
 * 1952- Islands in the Sky
 * 1953- Against the Fall of Night
 * 1953- childhood's End
 * 1953- Expedition to Earth
 * 1955- Earthlight
 * 1956- Reach for Tomorrow [short stories]
 * 1956 – The City and the Stars
 * 1957- Tales from the White Hart [short stories]
 * 1957- The Deep Range
 * 1958- The Other Side of The Sky
 * 1959- Across the Sea of Stars [short stories]
 * 1961- A Fall of Moondust
 * 1962-"Profiles of the Future"
 * 1962 – From the Ocean, From the Stars
 * 1962- Tales of Ten Worlds
 * 1963- Dolphin Island
 * 1963- Glide Path
 * 1965- An Arthur c. Clarke Omnibus
 * 1965- Prelude to Mars [short stories]
 * 1967- The Nine Billion Names of God [short stories]
 * 1968- 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * 1968- An Arthur c. Clarke Second Omnibus [short stories]
 * 1968- The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night [short stories]
 * 1972- Of Time and Stars
 * 1972- The Wind from the Sun
 * 1973- Rendezvous with Rama
 * 1975- Imperial Earth
 * 1978 – Four Great SF Novels
 * 1979- The Fountains of Paradise
 * 1982- 2010: Odyssey Two
 * 1983- The Sentinel [short stories]
 * 1986- The Songs of Distant Earth
 * 1988- 2061: Odyssey Three
 * 1988- A Meeting With Medusa
 * 1988- Cradle (with Gentry Lee)
 * 1989- Rama II (with Gentry Lee)
 * 1990- Beyond the Fall of Night (with Gregory Benford)
 * 1990- Tales From Planet Earth
 * 1990- The Ghost from the Grand Banks
 * 1991- More Than One Universe
 * 1991- The Garden of Rama (with Gentry Lee)
 * 1993- Rama Revealed (with Gentry Lee)
 * 1993- The Hammer of God
 * Richter 10 (1996-with Mike McQuay)
 * 1997- 3001: The Final Odyssey
 * 1999- The Trigger (with Michael p. Kube-McDowell)
 * 2000- The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter)
 * 2000- The Collected Stories of Arthur c. Clarke [short stories]
 * 2001- The Fountains of Paradise
 * 2004- time's Eye (with Stephen Baxter)
 * 2005- Sunstorm (with Stephen Baxter)
 * 2007- Firstborn (with Stephen Baxter)
 * Hugo Award
 * The Star (1956)-short story
 * Rendezvous with Rama (1974)-novel
 * The Fountains of Paradise (1980)-novel
 * The Nine Billion Names of God (2004)-short story (Retro Hugo retroactive)
 * Nebula Award
 * A Meeting with Medusa (1973)-novella
 * Rendezvous with Rama (1974)-novel
 * The Fountains of Paradise (1980)-novel
 * Campbell Memorial Award
 * Rendezvous with Rama (1974)-novel
 * British SF Award
 * Rendezvous with Rama (1974)-novel
 * Locus Award
 * Rendezvous with Rama (1974)-SF novel
 * Nebula Grand Master Award (1986)