Arthur C. Clarke

Biography

The celebrity came to him thanks to her book 2001, the odyssey of space . This last is based on the news the Sentinel which it transformed into novel at the time where Stanley Kubrick a film drew some. The two versions slightly differ one from the other.

Its work comprises many other books, in particular the series of the Rama and continuations at 2001, and a great number of news.

Its scientific contribution most important is probably the satellite concept of geostationary largely implemented, nowadays, for the telecommunications satellites which he proposed in an article of Wireless World in 1945 and later the use of platforms with satellites for the observation of the Earth.

During the Second world war, it takes part in the development of the alarm system Radar which strongly contributed to the success of the Royal Air Force during the Bataille of England.

Clarke is born with Minehead in the Somerset. It is useful in RAF as a specialist out of radar before obtaining its diploma with the Université of London. Clarke started to sell stories of Science-fiction since its passage in the RAF, but he briefly works as writer associated in the review Science Abstracts before devoting itself to the writing full-time as from 1951. He is former president of the British Interplanetary Society, the British interplanetary company and member of the Underwater Explorers Club , the club of the underwater explorers.

He lives with the Sri Lanka since many years.

He is an eminent member of the Mouvement contemporary skeptic.

September 10th, 2007, whereas it cannot move more differently than in wheel chair, it sends from Sri Lanka a congratulations message for the overflight by the probe Cassini of the satellite of Saturn Japet. This event represents for him a reference to its novel the 2001 Odyssey of space.

Works

Cycles

the trilogy of space

- Marabout Science fiction N°630, 1977

the odyssey of space

Rowed

Base Venus
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# - I read N°2679, 1990
# - I read N°3006, 1991
# - I read N°3224, 1992
# - I read N°3350, 1992
# - I read N°3379, 1993

Other novels

- I read N°799, 1977
- Presses Pocket Science-fiction N°5164, 1983
- I read N°904, 1978
- I read N°1304, 1982
- I read N°2262, 1987

Independently of the fiction, Clarke wrote two autobiographies: Ascent to Orbit is the title of what it calls its scientific autobiography and Astounding Days is the name that it gave to its autobiography science fiction. With the image of the life of Clarke, full and interesting, the two books are enthralling. The majority of its tests (between 1934 to 1998) are gathered in the book Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! (2000). The majority of its news are joined together in the book The Collected Stories off Arthur C. Clarke (2001). These two books form a good selection of works of fiction and others of Clarke, selection interesting even for those which know already the majority of its books.

Others

A Astéroïde was baptized in its honor: (4923) Clarke

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