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Arthur C. Clarke in 2005.

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (December 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist. Clarke was knighted in 1998. He emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956 largely to pursue his interest in scuba diving, and lived there until his death.

Clarke corresponded with C. S. Lewis in the 1940s and 1950s and they once met in an Oxford pub, The Eastgate, to discuss science fiction and space travel. Clarke, after Lewis's death, voiced great praise for him, saying the Ransom Trilogy was one of the few works of science fiction that could be considered literature.

In the early 1970s Clarke signed a three-book publishing deal, a record for a science-fiction writer at the time. The first of the three was Rendezvous with Rama in 1973, which won him all the main genre awards and has spawned sequels that, along with the Odyssey Series, formed the backbone of his later career. Clarke's work is marked by an optimistic view of science empowering mankind's exploration of the Solar System. Clarke's images of the future often feature a Utopian setting with highly developed technology, ecology, and society, based on the author's ideals.

Novels[]

  • Prelude to Space (1951)
  • The Sands of Mars (1951)
  • Islands in the Sky (1952)
  • Against the Fall of Night (1948, 1953) original version of The City and the Stars
  • Childhood's End (1953)
  • Earthlight (1955)
  • The City and the Stars (1956)
  • The Deep Range (1957)
  • A Fall of Moondust (1961)
  • Dolphin Island (1963)
  • Glide Path (1963)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
  • A Meeting with Medusa (1972)
  • Imperial Earth (1975)
  • The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
  • 2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
  • The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
  • 2061: Odyssey Three (1988)
  • Cradle (1988) (with Gentry Lee)
  • Rama II (1989) (with Gentry Lee)
  • Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Gregory Benford)
  • The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990)
  • The Garden of Rama (1991) (with Gentry Lee)
  • Rama Revealed (1993) (with Gentry Lee)
  • The Hammer of God (1993)
  • Richter 10 (1996) (with Mike McQuay)
  • 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
  • The Trigger (1999) (with Michael P. Kube-McDowell)
  • The Light of Other Days (2000) (with Stephen Baxter)
  • Time's Eye (2003) (with Stephen Baxter)
  • Sunstorm (2005) (with Stephen Baxter)
  • Firstborn (2007) (with Stephen Baxter)
  • The Last Theorem (2008) (with Frederik Pohl)

Short stories[]

Clark's short stories include...

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