Sir arthur c clarke biography book

Arthur C. Clarke has been extraordinarily influential in sci-fi, and indeed in science – we now have the Arthur C. Clarke award for sci-fi, the Sir Arthur C. Clarke award for space exploration, and the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation for Science Education. Could you tell us a little about his influence?

He’s probably the most influential science fiction writer since H. G. Wells – and they had a similarly strange experience. Wells started off as a working class guy, born in Bromley in Kent. He went on to do a science degree with Huxley – and is opened up to conversations with world statesmen. Clarke did something very similar. He was born in Somerset, in December , and grew up on a farm with his parents. They’re lower middle class, upper working class. He got into the whole enthusiasm about radio and telegraphy and new communication and served in the RAF during the Second World War as a communications network officer. Then, after the war, because

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A Brief Biography of Arthur C. Clarke ()

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a science and science fiction writer, futurist, undersea explorer, and television series host, best known for his short stories and novels, including and .

Clarke was born in Minehead, Somerset on 16 December and grew up on a farm enjoying stargazing and reading science fiction magazines. After secondary education at Huish Grammar School in Taunt

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Arthur C. Clarke: The Authorized Biography

March 30,

Quite good, especially on the young Clark who was a very odd and interesting young man, almost otherworldly, who was nonetheless focused like a laser on his favorite topic: planetary astronomy and rockets. This is the Clark who came up with the idea of geosynchronous communications satellites (which he lived to see, of course). Much of interest. Clark spent a great deal of his life living in Sri Lanka. Clark was practically a professional scuba diver, and was coowner, and very active partner, of an underwater recovery business for quite a while. Final couple of chapters are deadly dull. They consist of literally one description after another of trips to give speeches and receive awards. Clark's naive, unexamined, ultimately insipid one worldism, which was usually the subject of his speeches and non science fiction appearances, is presented at length and as writ from on high by McAleer, who otherwise show excellent taste in quote