Sir Arthur C. Clarke

(b.1917)

Arthur Charles Clarke

Photo from the Clarke Unauthorized Homepage

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Arthur C. Clarke Unauthorized Homepage
The Arthur C. Clarke chapter of The Silicon Jungle
The Arthur C. Clarke Award

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Bio:

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. In wasn't clear until the end wether the movie or the book would come out first (the movie did) Clarke had a small cmaeo in the sequel 2010: Odyssey Two

Born in Minehead, England. Became interested in science and gadget-building as a young boy. When he was fourteen he began reading SF magazines such as Amazing and Astounding and at fifteen began writing for his school magazine, eventually becoming it's assistand editor. At nineteen he moved to London where he meet other SF writers and became treasurer for the british Interplanetary Society. He wrote for and edited fan magazines, eventually selling articles to Tales of Wonder in 1938.

During World War II he served in the RAF and during this period he came up with the idea for artificial satellite, publishing an article called "Extraterestial Relays" in 1945 in Wireless World. Also during this period he began selling to the American market.
He graduated with a B.Sc. in physics and maths from King's College, London. He was Assistand Editor for Physics Abstracts until his writting began to bring in more income than his salary at which point he took up writting full-time.

Took up skin-diving in the mid 1950's and continues enjoying it still. Became paralysed after contracting polio and hitting his head and spent the next three years recovering from that.

Resident of Sri Lanka since 1956. Awarded a knighthood "for services to literature".

His novel Rendezvous with Rama is currently being adapted into a film starring Morgan Freeman and directed by David Fincher.

Awards: Nebula, Hugo (2), john W. Campbell, SFWA Grand Master.

Bibliography:

Series
2001: A Space Odyssey
Written in conjunction and simultaneously with the screenplay by Stanley Kubrick. Based off of his short story "The Sentinel"
August 1993, New American Library, 25th Anniversary Edition ISBN:0-451-45273-9 Amazon.com
September 2000, Roc Mass Market Paperback Reissue Edition ISBN:0-451-4579-9 Amazon.com
2010: Odyssey Two
Sequel to 2001:ASO. Filmed in 1984
1982, Phantasia
2061: Odyssey Three
1988
3001: The Final Odyssey
February 1998, Ballantine Books Mass Market Paperback ISBN:0-345-42349-6 Amazon.com
Across the Sea of Stars
1959 Omnibus
Against the Fall of Night
1953, Gnome
An Arthur C. Clarke Omnibus
1965
An Arthur C. Clarke Second Omnibus
1968
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke
sh.sts. 1973, later in 2 Vols.
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1937 - 1955
sh.sts. 197
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke: 1956 - 1972
sh.sts. 1977
Childhood's End
1953
June 1987, Ballantine Books Mass Market Paperback ISBN:0-345-34795-1 Amazon.com
The City and the Stars
1956 rev. Against the Fall of Night
Bantam Spectra
Cradle
1988 w. Gentry Lee
The Deep Range
1957
Bantam Spectra
Dolphin Island
1963 juvenile
Expedition to Earth
sh.sts. 1953
Earthlight
1955
A Fall of Moondust
Bantam Spectra
Four Great SF Novels
1978 Omnibus
The Fountains of Paradise
1979 Nebula, Hugo 1980
Bantam Spectra
January 1979, Harcourt Brace Hardcover
September 2001, Aspect Trade Papaerback ISBN:0-446-6779-4 Amazon.com
From the Ocean, From the Stars
1962 Omnibus
The Garden of Rama
1991, Bantam Spectra
With G. Lee
The Ghost from the Grand Banks
1990, Bantam Spectra
Glide Path
Bantam Spectra
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998
Edited by Ian T. Macauley. Collection of non-fiction essays.
August 1999, St. Martin's Press Hardcover First Edition ISBN:0-312-19893-0 Amazon.com
The Hammer of God
1993 Gollanz; Bantam Spectra
April 1995, Orbit paperback. ISBN: 1-85723-194-5, cover by John Avon
SF novel set in the 22nd century about an attempt to stop an asteroid from stricking the Earth.
How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village
Bantam Spectra
Imperial Earth
1975
Bantam Spectra
Islands in the Sky
1952 juvenile
The Lion of Commare & Against the Fall of Night
1968 Omnibus
The Lost Worlds of 2001
A Meeting With Medusa
1988 Tor Double # 1
More Than One Universe: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
sh.sts. 1991
The Nine Billion Names of God
sh.sts. 1967
Of Time and Stars
sh.sts. 1972
The Other Side of the Sky
sh.sts. 1958
Prelude to Mars
1965 Omnibus
Project Solar Sail
1990 Ed.
Rama II
1989, Bantam Spectra
w. G. Lee
Rama Revealed
1993
Reach for Tomorrow
sh.sts. 1956
Rendezvous with Rama
Nebula, Hugo. A film version is currently in production.
1973
December 1990, Bantam Spectra Mass Market Reissue Edition. ISBN:0-553-28789-3 Amazon.com
February 1994, Lightyear Press Hardcover Reissue Edition ISBN:0-899-68449-1 Amazon.com
The Sands of Mars
1951, Gnome
Bantam Spectra
The Sentinel
sh.sts. 1983
The Snows of Olympus
ISBN:0-575-05652-5
blurb
The Songs of Distant Earth
1986
January 1991, Ballantine Books Mass Market Paperback Reissue Edition ISBN:0-345-3224-0
Tales From Planet Earth
sh.sts, Bantam Spectra
Tales From the White Hart
sh.sts. 1957
Tales of Ten Worlds
sh.sts. 1962
Time Probe
1966 Ed.
The Wind from the Sun
sh.sts. 1972 rev. 1987
"Crime on Mars"
(c) 1960 by Davis Publication, Inc.
June 1961, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol 20 No. 6
"Electronic Tutors"
1980, Omni
"Introduction to The SF Hall of Fame, Vol III"
"I Remember Babylon"
(c) 1960 by HMH Publishing Company, Inc.
1961 in The Years Best SF: 6th Annual Edition edited by Judith Merril
"A Meeting With Medusa"
novella, 1972 Nebula
"Sunjammer"
1963 Boy scouts of America
"The Wire Continuum"
With Stephen Baxter
January 1998, Playboy

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