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	Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clarke was born in Minehead in Somerset, England, and as a boy enjoyed stargazing and enthusiastically read old American science-fiction magazines (pulp magazines, many of which made their way to England as ballast in ships).
		Clarke's influence on the directing of 2001: A Space Odyssey is also felt in one of the most memorable scenes in the movie when atronaut Bowman shuts down HAL by removing modules from service one by one.
		Clarke is considered one of the Big Three of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov; he is the only one still alive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke (2743 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke
		Arthur Charles Clarke was born December 16, 1917 in the English coastal town of Minehead, in Somerset.
		In addition to writing, Clarke currently serves as the Honorary Board Chair of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (founded by Dr. Carol Rosin), and his legacy is being defined and preserved under the auspices of the Arthur C. Clarke foundation which hosts his official website.
		Science fiction icon Sir Arthur C. Clarke is one of the world's best-selling authors of science fiction and is widely considered one of the masters of the genre.
	www.nndb.com /people/725/000023656 (1555 words)

	Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clarke's Law, later the first of the three laws, was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", in Profiles of the Future (1962).
		Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three "laws" of prediction:
		The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay; its status as Clarke's Second Law was conferred on it by others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clarke's_three_laws (229 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke
		One day Arthur C. Clarke, the grand master in science fiction, was in the public library in Colombo when he came across a passage in a book written by a physicist in the 1920's.
		Arthur C. Clarke also wrote non-fiction books and articles, many of them about undersea exploration (he is an enthousiastic skin-diver himself, one reason for his residence in Sri Lanka).
		Arthur C. Clarke is best known for the famous SF movie 2001: A Space Odyssey for which he wrote the script with Stanley Kubrick.
	www.xs4all.nl /~carlkop/3001e.html (2113 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: "Paedophile" Arthur C Clarke sparks protests in Lanka
		Child right activists in Sri Lanka have expressed shock over science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke's confession in a newspaper interview of a life of paedophilia and called for his deportation just around the time Prince Charles was to knight him.
		Clarke, 80, widely regarded as a visionary and author of the celebrated 2001: A Space Odyssey and some 80 other books, was quoted as saying in the interview published in London's Sunday Mirror that having sex with children was all right.
		Clarke is to be presented with a knighthood by Prince Charles, who will be the chief guest at Sri Lanka's 50th anniversary of independence on February 4.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/feb/02clarke.htm (622 words)

	The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation
		Arthur C. Clarke is the son of an English farming family, born in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England on December 16, 1917.
		After attending schools in his home county, Arthur Clarke moved to London in 1936 and pursued his early interest in space sciences by joining the British Interplanetary Society.
		Clarke's work, which led to the global satellite systems in use today, brought him numerous honors including the 1982 Marconi International Fellowship, a gold medal of the Franklin Institute, the Vikram Sarabhai Professorship of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, the Lindbergh Award and a Fellowship of King's College, London.
	www.clarkefoundation.org /acc/biography.php (777 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke
		Arthur C. Clarke was born December 16, 1917 in Minehead, Somersetshire, England, the son of a farmer who began his career as a bureaucrat (in the British Civil Service) and a radar instructor in the Royal Air Force, and ended up as a celebrated author and television presence.
		Clarke's versatility and scholarship are also manifest in his first rate scientific and technical writing, which he has done in English, not academese, thus opening up new frontiers to young minds and to the public-at-large.
		Some have called him "the father of comsats." In modesty and truth, Clarke has refused that honor.
	www.webstationone.com /fecha/clarke.htm (783 words)

	Salon Directory
		Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1998) was born in Minehead, Somerset, England, in 1917 but has lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), since 1956, when he developed an interest in undersea exploration and took up scuba diving and photography.
		As Clarke had said of Kepler, "He was both a scientist and a mystic." The fabulist in him was stimulated by the new frontier, but his inner scientist was guarded.
		Just a year later, Clarke published what many consider (to his annoyance) to be his finest novel, "Childhood's End," a dark tale of an alien occupation of Earth.
	dir.salon.com /people/bc/2000/03/07/clarke (2775 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke Quotes Part 1
		Sir Arthur Charles Clarke is among the giants of contemporary science fiction authors, and also a leading science writer.
		As a child Clarke was a precocious tinkerer with gadgets, once constructing a light-beam sound transmitter.
		From 1948-50 Clarke was Assistant Physics Editor at the Institution of Electrical Engineers and chaired the British Interplanetary Society 1946-47 and 1950-53.
	www.testermanscifi.org /ClarkeQuotesPart1.html (938 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke - the Visionary
		Clarke was born in Minehead, Somerset, in 1917, and spent his early years on the family farm.
		Clarke’s fans were disappointed when he appeared to swap science fiction for scuba diving in the mid-fifties.
		After Clarke moved to London, his flat became the centre of activities for the growing number of ‘space cadets’, and he began to write the Society’s journal – in addition to fictional pieces for ‘fanzines’.
	www.firstscience.com /SITE/ARTICLES/clarke.asp (1440 words)

	Salon Directory
		Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1998) was born in Minehead, Somerset, England, in 1917 but has lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), since 1956, when he developed an interest in undersea exploration and took up scuba diving and photography.
		Clarke made himself expert in all matters pertaining to the dawning Space Age.
		The machine that carries Clarke forward in time is his scientific imagination, fueled by clear, powerfully informed writing.
	dir.salon.com /people/bc/2000/03/07/clarke (830 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke Unauthorized Homepage
		Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most celebrated science fiction authors of our time.
		At the heart of every Arthur C. Clarke novel lies a small puzzle with large ramifications.
		Sir Arthur was presented the "Award of Knight Bachelor" on 26 May, 2000, at a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka where he has lived since 1956.
	www.lsi.usp.br /~rbianchi/clarke (359 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke
		Arthur C. Clarke is one of the original grand masters of science fiction, along with Heinlein, Asimov, and A.E. van Vogt.He became interested in science and writing at an early age, selling his first story in 1938.
		Clarke's final resolution of his disaster scenario makes scientific sense, which is probably why Hollywood has not tried to make a movie out of this one.
		Clarke draws each of his moon carrier passengers well, and better yet, they are believable people.
	www.hyperpat.com /clarke.html (909 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Clarke, Arthur C
		Andrew Rissik asks whether Arthur C Clarke's The Collected Stories shows him to be a hard-nosed technologist or philosophical mystic and takes a look through Piers Bizony's lens in 2001: Filming the Future
		Clarke's Second Law: The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.
		Along with HG Wells and Isaac Asimov, Clarke is rightly considered one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-41,00.html (606 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke : Bibliography
		Arthur Charles Clarke was born in Somerset, England on December 16, 1917.
		Clarke's most famous works are the four novels in the "Space Odyssey" series and the four novels in the "Rama" series, the last three of which were cowritten with former NASA scientist Gentry Lee.
		Clarke continued to write, becoming a distinguished science fiction author with dozens of collections of short stories and novels that described in detail the possibilities of human exploration of space.
	cage.rug.ac.be /~pvdecast/clarke.html (1259 words)

	BBC News SOUTH ASIA Arthur C Clarke knighted
		Arthur C Clarke, 82, is regarded as a space-age visionary, who predicted space travel in 1945, long before rockets were tested.
		The science fiction writer, Arthur C Clarke, has been knighted, more than two years after the title was conferred on him.
		The investiture ceremony was delayed until Sir Arthur was cleared of charges of paedophilia, brought against him after an article published in the Sunday Mirror.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_765000/765385.stm (262 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke
		Arthur C. Clarke was born in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England...
		Arthur C. Clarke: The Man Who Saw the Future (1997) (TV)....
		Arthur C. Clarke: Before 2001 (1993) (V) (co-writer)
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0002009 (246 words)

	CNN - Arthur C. Clarke - May 27, 1998
		Clarke was to be knighted by Prince Charles in February during his visit to Sri Lanka, but asked for the investiture to be delayed after child abuse accusations were made against him by a British newspaper.
		It said in a statement that Clarke was being honored for his numerous literary and scientific achievements and for the relationship he created with the university at Urbana-Champaign when he named it as the birthplace of HAL 9000, the spaceship computer in the novel and film "2001: A Space Odyssey"
		British-born Clarke, who has lived in Colombo for more than 30 years, is the author of scores of novels and science-fiction books and creator of several documentaries.
	www.cnn.com /books/news/9805/27/arthur.c.clarke (304 words)

	1.03: Arthur C. Clarke On Life
		Clarke's refuge in seaside Colombo (where he has lived for 37 years) is a kind of "technoasis;" a self-contained media center, work station, observatory, and cerebral playground under a single roof.
		Now 75, Clarke is afflicted with post-polio syndrome; a debilitating disease about which little is known, since - as he himself dryly points out - few polio survivors have lived long enough to contract it.
		ACC: The idea is to feed impulses directly into the brain so that you bypass the senses.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/1.03/clarke_pr.html (1798 words)

	The Enterprise Mission
		Clarke took the opportunity of his recent face-to-face meeting with Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin -- the first 33° Scottish Rite Freemason to walk on the surface of the Moon -- to drop his bombshell statement in a space.com story.
		Clarke's flat statement stunned Aldrin into silence, much as his earlier statements on the "Glass worms of Mars" at a Planetary Society event in December, 2000 made Society chairman Louis Friedman acutely uncomfortable.
		Clarke has been considered a visionary for the better part of the last century for a reason -- he is one.
	www.enterprisemission.com /sir.htm (1564 words)

	Arthur C Clarke
		But Arthur C Clarke is a visionary of far greater order and with science fiction stories such as 2001: A Space Odyssey he explores the limits of the possible.
		This exhibition celebrated Arthur C Clarke's life and his outstanding contributions to the worlds of science, literature and entertainment.
		In 1945- 12 years before the space age began - Arthur C Clarke suggested using satellites for global communications.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /on-line/clarke (93 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke
		Arthur C. Clarke's seventieth birthday, in December 1987, was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset; he was knighted in 1998 for his services to literature, shortly after his eightieth birthday, the first science fiction writer to be thus honoured.
		Arthur C. Clarke is without question the world’s best-known and most celebrated science fiction writer, with a sixty-year career of unparalleled success.
		Clarke has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of his century, celebrating the great scientific powers of man - and simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/arthurcclarke.html (2230 words)

	Mimosa 27, pages 34-37. "Arthur C. Clarke, Fan" by Dave Kyle
		The Clarke family home was originally in Somerset, but 88 Nightingale Road in North London had become the headquarters and home for the two brothers and for Arthur's world-wide activities, as managed by Fred.
		Those who understand him know the spirit and essence of Arthur Clarke, with his deeply-rooted connection to fandom and its early sense of wonder.
		Arthur was courageous, enthusiastic, and a powerhouse of physical as well as mental energy.
	www.jophan.org /mimosa/m27/kyle.htm (2831 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke Quotes Part 1
		Sir Arthur Charles Clarke is among the giants of contemporary science fiction authors, and also a leading science writer.
		From 1948-50 Clarke was Assistant Physics Editor at the Institution of Electrical Engineers and chaired the British Interplanetary Society 1946-47 and 1950-53.
		As a child Clarke was a precocious tinkerer with gadgets, once constructing a light-beam sound transmitter.
	www.testermanscifi.org /ClarkeQuotesPart1.html (938 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence
		Arthur C. Clarke & Lord Dunsany: A Correspondence collects letters between a giant of science fiction at the beginning of his career and an aging, solidly established writer of classic pure fantasy.
		Born in 1917 in Minehead, Somerset, England, and living in Sri Lanka since 1956, Arthur C. Clarke is best known for his 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) based on his short story "Sentinel of Eternity." His Against the Fall of Night (1948) and Childhood's End (1953) are also among his best titles.
		Clarke, through a portion of the letters, is studying for final exams in physics and mathematics, and is deeply involved in the hard-and-fast fact-based sciences of astronomy and astrophysics.
	www.sfsite.com /09a/cor40.htm (982 words)

	Arthur Charles Clarke
		Arthur C. Clarke nowadays belongs to the most respected authors in the world science fiction and is considered to be the second most favourite author of sci-fi and popular-scientific literature.
		Clarke's first renumerated articles were about the solar system and about possibility of flight with a rocket to the Moon.
		This is nothing strange but Clarke can bring a great number of new ideas and thoughts, work out them and find a lot of interesting questions to speculate over the world, civilization and future.
	psaci.misto.cz /_MAIL_/anglictina/gum/arthurcharlesclarke.html (845 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke : Bibliography
		Arthur Charles Clarke was born in Somerset, England on December 16, 1917.
		Clarke's most famous works are the four novels in the "Space Odyssey" series and the four novels in the "Rama" series, the last three of which were cowritten with former NASA scientist Gentry Lee.
		Clarke continued to write, becoming a distinguished science fiction author with dozens of collections of short stories and novels that described in detail the possibilities of human exploration of space.
	cage.rug.ac.be /~pvdecast/clarke.html (1259 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke - the Visionary
		Clarke was born in Minehead, Somerset, in 1917, and spent his early years on the family farm.
		Clarke’s fans were disappointed when he appeared to swap science fiction for scuba diving in the mid-fifties.
		After Clarke moved to London, his flat became the centre of activities for the growing number of ‘space cadets’, and he began to write the Society’s journal – in addition to fictional pieces for ‘fanzines’.
	www.firstscience.com /SITE/ARTICLES/clarke.asp (1440 words)

	Arthur C. Clarke. Biography and works
		Arthur C. Clarke was born in the seaside town of Minehead, Somerset, England on December 16, 1917.
		Among Clarke's central themes in his fiction is the spiritual rebirth and the search for man's place in the universe.
		In the 1960s Clarke collaborated with motion-picture director Stanley Kubrick in making the innovative and highly praised science-fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), based on Clarke's short story The Sentinel (1951) and subsequently developed into a novel (1968).
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/clarke.htm (692 words)

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