Arthur C. Clarke
Novelist, Author
1917 – 2008
Who was Arthur C. Clarke?
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
He is perhaps most famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, considered by the American Film Institute to be one of the most influential films of all time. His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, along with a large readership, making him into one of the towering figures of the field. For many years he, along with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934 while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system—an idea that, in 1963, won him the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal. Later he was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946–47 and again in 1951-53.
Clarke was also a science writer, who was both an avid popularizer of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability, who won a Kalinga Prize in 1961. These all together eventually earned him the moniker "prophet of the space age".
Famous Quotes:
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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- Born
- Dec 16, 1917
Minehead - Also known as
- Arthur Charles Clarke
- Charles Willis
- E. G. O'Brien
- Sir Arthur Charles Clarke
- Arthur Clark
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- Arthur Clarke
- Charles Wills
- Charles A Wills
- Spouses
- Marilyn Mayfield
(1953/06/15 - 1964)
- Marilyn Mayfield
- Religion
- Agnosticism
- Atheism
- Nationality
- Sri Lanka
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- King's College London
- Lived in
- Sri Lanka
(1956 - 2008) - United Kingdom
- Sri Lanka
- Died
- Mar 19, 2008
Colombo - Resting place
- Colombo Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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