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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS, Sri Lankabhimanya, war ein britischer Science-Fiction-Schriftsteller und Physiker. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS, Sri Lankabhimanya, (* Dezember in Minehead, Somerset, England; † März in Colombo, Sri Lanka). Der Arthur C. Clarke Award ist ein von Arthur C. Clarke mit dem Ziel, die Science-Fiction in Großbritannien zu fördern, ins Leben gerufener und. von mehr als Ergebnissen oder Vorschlägen für Bücher: "Arthur C. Clarke". Wir stellen hier die Science Fiction-Serien und Romane von Arthur C. Clarke in der richtigen Reihenfolge vor. Clarke. Arthur C. Clarke zählt neben Isaac Asimov und Robert A. Heinlein zu den größten SF-Autoren des Jahrhunderts. Geboren in Minehead. Stiller Donner • Die Supermächte der Erde, USA, Europa und China, sind dabei, ihre Einflusssphären zu arrondieren. Dazu haben sie eine besondere.
The Light of Other Days is a story that will change your view of what it is to be human. Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive.
He is—with H. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein—one of the writers who define science fiction in our time. Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works.
Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust.
On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment.
Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space--and on the frontiers of the human mind.
Science fiction's finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds.
Clarke presents an intergalactic war in which one side's own advanced weaponry may actually lead to its ultimate defeat.
Dick, author of the short story that became the movie Blade Runner, reaches new heights of terror with his post apocalyptic vision of the future.
Martin's gripping drama. Cherryh o David Drake o Cordwainer Smith o Harry Turtledove o and Walter John Williams Guaranteed to spark the imagination and thrill the soul, these thirteen science fiction gems cast a stark light on our dreams and our darkest fears--truly among the finest tales of the 20th century.
A strange enigma is discovered on the moon. The discovery has great implications and men are sent out deep into the solar system. But things begin to go horribly wrong Clarke collaborated with film director, Stanley Kubrick, writing the novel while Kubrick created the film.
En los quince textos reunidos en este volumen, de una variedad de tonos excepcional en el genero de la ciencia ficcion, Arthur C.
Clarke examina admirablemente los limites de lo posible en la epoca de los satelites artificiales, en el futuro proximo de los viajes por el espacio y en el futuro inconcebiblemente remoto en que los hombres abandonemos definitivamente la maltrecha Tierra.
The Leonov is beaten to Jupiter by a Chinese mission which lands on Jupiter's moon, Europa, and falls victim to its unknown terrain.
The last astronaut to die on the alien surface broadcast a mes. Los hombres habian construido antes muchas ciudades, pero nunca una ciudad como Diaspar: porque Diaspar tenia una leyenda.
Era la ultima ciudad construida en la Tierra por el poder de quienes tambien lograron conquistar el espacio. Pero la grandeza de Diaspar acabo desapareciendo.
Desde los mas oscuros limites del Universo, los Invasores atacaron el imperio creado por el hombre y lo confinaron otra vez a la Tierra.
Quien abandonara la Tierra caeria bajo la ira de los Invasores. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it?
Men travel into space to find out - a billion kilometres to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them….
Esta obra narra el viaje de un famoso novelista de ciencia ficcion, Martin Gibson, a una de las mas prosperas colonias extraterrestres, donde los mas celebres cientificos estan logrando cambiar el aspecto de Marte para hacerlo habitable.
Sin embargo, lo que tenia que ser un viaje de placer no tarda en convertirse en una complicada red de intereses politicos y cientificos que atrapa a Martin y le enfrenta a una desagradable evidencia: las relaciones entre la Tierra y Marte no son tan placidas como parecen.
Clarke later complained that this had the effect of making the book into a novelisation , and that Kubrick had manipulated circumstances to downplay Clarke's authorship.
For these and other reasons, the details of the story differ slightly from the book to the movie. The film contains little explanation for the events taking place.
Clarke, though, wrote thorough explanations of "cause and effect" for the events in the novel. James Randi later recounted that upon seeing the premiere of , Clarke left the theatre at the intermission in tears, after having watched an eleven-minute scene which did not make it into general release where an astronaut is doing nothing more than jogging inside the spaceship, which was Kubrick's idea of showing the audience how boring space travels could be.
In , Clarke published The Lost Worlds of , which included his accounts of the production, and alternative versions of key scenes. The "special edition" of the novel A Space Odyssey released in contains an introduction by Clarke in which he documents the events leading to the release of the novel and film.
In , Clarke continued the epic with a sequel, Odyssey Two. This novel was also made into a film, , directed by Peter Hyams for release in Because of the political environment in America in the s, the film presents a Cold War theme, with the looming tensions of nuclear warfare not featured in the novel.
The film was not considered to be as revolutionary or artistic as , but the reviews were still positive.
Clarke's email correspondence with Hyams was published in The book also included Clarke's personal list of the best science-fiction films ever made.
Clarke appeared in the film, first as the man feeding the pigeons while Dr. Heywood Floyd is engaged in a conversation in front of the White House.
Clarke's award-winning novel Rendezvous with Rama was optioned for filmmaking in the early 21st century [84] [85] but this motion picture was in " development hell " as of [update].
In the early s, actor Morgan Freeman expressed his desire to produce a movie based on Rendezvous with Rama. After a drawn-out development process, which Freeman attributed to difficulties in getting financing, it appeared in that this project might be proceeding, but this was very dubious.
In late , Fincher stated the movie is unlikely to be made. There's no script and as you know, Morgan Freeman's not in the best of health right now.
We've been trying to do it but it's probably not going to happen. Clarke published a number of nonfiction books with essays, speeches, addresses, etc.
Several of his nonfiction books are composed of chapters that can stand on their own as separate essays. In particular, Clarke was a populariser of the concept of space travel.
In , he wrote Interplanetary Flight , a book outlining the basics of space flight for laymen. His books on space travel usually included chapters about other aspects of science and technology, such as computers and bioengineering.
He predicted telecommunication satellites albeit serviced by astronauts in space suits, who would replace the satellite's vacuum tubes as they burned out.
His many predictions culminated in when he began a series of magazine essays which eventually became Profiles of the Future, published in book form in The same work also contained "Clarke's First Law" and text that became Clarke's three laws in later editions.
In a essay, Clarke predicted global satellite TV broadcasts that would cross national boundaries indiscriminately and would bring hundreds of channels available anywhere in the world.
He also envisioned a "personal transceiver, so small and compact that every man carries one". He wrote: "the time will come when we will be able to call a person anywhere on Earth merely by dialing a number.
In a interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , the interviewer asked Clarke how he believed the computer would change the future for the everyday person, and what life would be like in the year Clarke accurately predicted many things that became reality, including online banking , online shopping , and other now commonplace things.
Responding to a question about how the interviewer's son's life would be different, Clarke responded: "He will have, in his own house, not a computer as big as this, [points to nearby computer], but at least, a console through which he can talk, through his friendly local computer and get all the information he needs, for his everyday life, like his bank statements, his theatre reservations, all the information you need in the course of living in our complex modern society, this will be in a compact form in his own house An extensive selection of Clarke's essays and book chapters from to ; pieces, 63 of them previously uncollected in his books can be found in the book Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
Another collection of essays, all previously collected, is By Space Possessed Clarke's technical papers, together with several essays and extensive autobiographical material, are collected in Ascent to Orbit: A Scientific Autobiography Clarke contributed to the popularity of the idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal telecommunications relays.
It is not clear that this article was actually the inspiration for the modern telecommunications satellite. According to John R.
Pierce , of Bell Labs , who was involved in the Echo satellite and Telstar projects, he gave a talk upon the subject in published in , using ideas that were "in the air", but was not aware of Clarke's article at the time.
My answer is always, 'A patent is really a license to be sued. Though different from Clarke's idea of telecom relay, the idea of communicating via satellites in geostationary orbit itself had been described earlier.
Clarke was an avid scuba diver and a member of the Underwater Explorers Club. In addition to writing, Clarke set up several diving-related ventures with his business partner Mike Wilson.
In , while filming off Great Basses Reef, Wilson found a wreck and retrieved silver coins. Plans to dive on the wreck the following year were stopped when Clarke developed paralysis, ultimately diagnosed as polio.
A year later, Clarke observed the salvage from the shore and the surface. The ship, ultimately identified as belonging to the Mughal Emperor , Aurangzeb , yielded fused bags of silver rupees , cannon, and other artefacts, carefully documented, became the basis for The Treasure of the Great Reef.
This, he believed, would make rocket-based access to space obsolete, and more than geostationary satellites, would ultimately be his scientific legacy.
Themes of religion and spirituality appear in much of Clarke's writing. Haldane , near the end of his life, suggested in a personal letter to Clarke that Clarke should receive a prize in theology for being one of the few people to write anything new on the subject, and went on to say that if Clarke's writings did not contain multiple contradictory theological views, he might have been a menace.
A famous quotation of Clarke's is often cited: "One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
We should get rid of it as quick as we can. Near the very end of that same episode, the last segment of which covered the Star of Bethlehem , he said his favourite theory [] was that it might be a pulsar.
Despite his atheism, themes of deism are a common feature within Clarke's work. Clarke left written instructions for a funeral: "Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
Regarding freedom of information Clarke believed, "In the struggle for freedom of information, technology, not politics, will be the ultimate decider.
Clarke also wrote, "It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Regarding human jobs being replaced by robots , Clarke said: "Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!
Clarke supported the use of renewable energy , saying: "I would like to see us kick our current addiction to oil, and adopt clean energy sources Climate change has now added a new sense of urgency.
Our civilisation depends on energy, but we can't allow oil and coal to slowly bake our planet. Clarke believed, "The best proof that there's intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasn't come here Our technology must still be laughably primitive; we may well be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms , while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.
Both are equally terrifying. Early in his career, Clarke had a fascination with the paranormal and said it was part of the inspiration for his novel Childhood's End.
Citing the numerous promising paranormal claims that were shown to be fraudulent, Clarke described his earlier openness to the paranormal having turned to being "an almost total sceptic" by the time of his biography.
Haldane: 'The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine.
Clarke's work is marked by an optimistic view of science empowering mankind's exploration of the Solar System and the world's oceans.
His images of the future often feature a Utopian setting with highly developed technology, ecology, and society, based on the author's ideals.
A recurring theme in Clarke's works is the notion that the evolution of an intelligent species would eventually make them something close to gods.
This was explored in his novel Childhood's End and briefly touched upon in his novel Imperial Earth. This idea of transcendence through evolution seems to have been influenced by Olaf Stapledon , who wrote a number of books dealing with this theme.
Clarke has said of Stapledon's book Last and First Men that "No other book had a greater influence on my life Clarke was also well known as an admirer of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany , also having corresponded with him until Dunsany's death in He described Dunsany as "one of the greatest writers of the century.
He also listed H. Clarke won the Stuart Ballantine Medal from the Franklin Institute for the concept of satellite communications, [] [] and other honours.
Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. His brother attended the awards ceremony, and presented an award specially chosen by Arthur and not by the panel of judges who chose the other awards to the British Interplanetary Society.
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Bibcode : Natur. Nature Seychelles. Archived from the original on 20 June Retrieved 27 March Clarke dies aged 90". The Times Online.
Archived from the original on 14 May Retrieved 19 March The London Gazette Supplement. BBC News. Retrieved 26 August Archived from the original PDF on 24 July Retrieved 20 October Retrieved 12 February The London Gazette.
Clarke: Out of the Ego Chamber". The New Yorker. Harper Collins. International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Physics World. Retrieved 16 July The British Interplanetary Society.
Retrieved 18 April Archived from the original on 25 July Sir Arthur C. Clarke: Odyssey of a Visionary: A Biography. Clarke Project.
New York Times. Archived from the original on 26 November Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since He was He had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome for years.
Ceylon digest. Retrieved 21 September Kirkus Book Reviews. The Arthur C. Clark Foundation. Archived from the original on 10 July Retrieved 21 March Retrieved 19 October Locus Publications.
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Kindle Edition. Stanley Kubrick: A Biography. But Clarke and Kubrick made a match. Both had a streak of homoeroticism The Independent.
Retrieved 15 February Retrieved 11 February Irish Examiner. Archived from the original on 29 June Retrieved 25 August Clarke: Playboy Interview".
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Wired Blog Network. Archived from the original on 20 March Retrieved 22 March Clarke dies at 90". Reuters India. Retrieved 6 February EarthSky Blogs.
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Archived from the original on 23 January Retrieved 22 January Agence France-Presse. Just a few days before he died, Clarke reviewed the final manuscript of his latest novel, "The Last Theorem" co-written with American author Frederik Pohl, which is to be published later this year.
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Some of his early influences included dinosaur cigarette cards , which led to an enthusiasm for fossils starting about In his teens, he joined the Junior Astronomical Association and contributed to Urania , the society's journal, which was edited in Glasgow by Marion Eadie.
At Clarke's request, she added an Astronautics Section, which featured a series of articles written by him on spacecraft and space travel. Clarke also contributed pieces to the Debates and Discussions Corner, a counterblast to an Urania article offering the case against space travel, and also his recollections of the Walt Disney film Fantasia.
He moved to London in and joined the Board of Education as a pensions auditor. During the Second World War from to , he served in the Royal Air Force as a radar specialist and was involved in the early-warning radar defence system, which contributed to the RAF's success during the Battle of Britain.
Clarke spent most of his wartime service working on ground-controlled approach GCA radar, as documented in the semiautobiographical Glide Path , his only non-science-fiction novel.
Although GCA did not see much practical use during the war, it proved vital to the Berlin Airlift of — after several years of development.
Clarke initially served in the ranks, and was a corporal instructor on radar at No. He was commissioned as a pilot officer technical branch on 27 May After the war, he attained a first-class degree in mathematics and physics from King's College London.
Although he was not the originator of the concept of geostationary satellites , one of his most important contributions in this field may be his idea that they would be ideal telecommunications relays.
He advanced this idea in a paper privately circulated among the core technical members of the British Interplanetary Society in The concept was published in Wireless World in October of that year.
Following the release of , Clarke became much in demand as a commentator on science and technology, especially at the time of the Apollo space program.
Clarke lived in Sri Lanka from until his death in , first in Unawatuna on the south coast, and then in Colombo.
In , during a dive trip off Trincomalee, Clarke discovered the underwater ruins of a temple, which would subsequently make the region popular with divers.
This was his second diving book after the The Coast of Coral. He dived often at Hikkaduwa , Trincomalee, and Nilaveli. The Sri Lankan government offered Clarke resident guest status in Heinlein came to visit, the Sri Lanka Air Force provided a helicopter to take them around the country.
The first of the three was Rendezvous with Rama in , which won all the main genre awards [37] and spawned sequels that along with the series formed the backbone of his later career.
In , he was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome , having originally contracted polio in , and needed to use a wheelchair most of the time thereafter.
He also served as chancellor of Moratuwa University in Sri Lanka from to In , Clarke appeared in a science-fiction film ; he portrayed himself in the telefilm Without Warning , an American production about an apocalyptic alien first-contact scenario presented in the form of a faux newscast.
Clarke also became active in promoting the protection of gorillas and became a patron of the Gorilla Organization , which fights for the preservation of gorillas.
In the s and early s, Clarke presented his television programmes Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World , Arthur C.
Clarke's Mysterious Universe. On a trip to Florida in , [1] Clarke met and quickly married Marilyn Mayfield, a year-old American divorcee with a young son.
They separated permanently after six months, although the divorce was not finalised until Everyone knew he was gay.
In the s, I'd go out drinking with his boyfriend. Self-absorbed he might be and a teetotaller , but an impeccable gent through and through.
In an interview in the July issue of Playboy magazine, when asked if he had had a bisexual experience, Clarke stated, "Of course. Who hasn't? As Isaac Asimov once told me, 'I think he simply found he preferred men.
Clarke accumulated a vast collection of manuscripts and personal memoirs, maintained by his brother Fred Clarke in Taunton, Somerset, England, and referred to as the "Clarkives".
Clarke said some of his private diaries will not be published until 30 years after his death. When asked why they were sealed, he answered, "Well, there might be all sorts of embarrassing things in them.
On 26 May , he was made a Knight Bachelor "for services to literature" at a ceremony in Colombo. Although he and his home were unharmed by the Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami , his "Arthur C.
Clarke Foundation worked towards better disaster notification systems. Because of his post-polio deficits, which limited his ability to travel and gave him halting speech , most of Clarke's communications in his last years were in the form of recorded addresses.
In July , he provided a video address for the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial in which he closed his comments with a goodbye to his fans. Clarke died in Sri Lanka on 19 March after suffering from respiratory failure, according to Rohan de Silva, one of his aides.
Known as GRB B , the burst set a new record as the farthest object that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. A few days before he died, he had reviewed the manuscript of his final work, The Last Theorem , on which he had collaborated by e-mail with contemporary Frederik Pohl.
His younger brother, Fred Clarke, and his Sri Lankan adoptive family were among the thousands in attendance.
While Clarke had a few stories published in fanzines , between and , his first professional sale appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in " Loophole " was published in April, while " Rescue Party ", his first sale, was published in May.
Clarke began carving out his reputation as a "scientific" science-fiction writer with his first science-fiction novel, Against the Fall of Night , published as a novella in It was very popular and considered ground-breaking work for some of the concepts it contained.
Clarke revised and expanded the novella into a full novel, which was published in Clarke later rewrote and expanded this work a third time to become The City and the Stars in , which rapidly became a definitive must-read in the field.
His third science-fiction novel, Childhood's End , was also published in , cementing his popularity. Clarke capped the first phase of his writing career with his sixth novel, A Fall of Moondust , in , which is also an acknowledged classic of the period.
During this time, Clarke corresponded with C. Lewis in the s and s and they once met in an Oxford pub, the Eastgate , to discuss science fiction and space travel.
Clarke voiced great praise for Lewis upon his death, saying the Ransom trilogy was one of the few works of science fiction that should be considered literature.
Though the story was rejected, it changed the course of Clarke's career. Not only was it the basis for A Space Odyssey , but "The Sentinel" also introduced a more cosmic element to Clarke's work.
Many of Clarke's later works feature a technologically advanced but still-prejudiced mankind being confronted by a superior alien intelligence.
In the cases of Childhood's End , and the series, this encounter produces a conceptual breakthrough that accelerates humanity into the next stage of its evolution.
This also applies in the far-distant past but our future in The City and the Stars and its original version, Against the Fall of Night.
Clarke's best novel. But I've grown disillusioned, partly because after all this time, they're still arguing about whether these things happen.
I suspect that telepathy does happen. A collection of early essays was published in The View from Serendip , which also included one short piece of fiction, " When the Twerms Came ".
Clarke also wrote short stories under the pseudonyms of E. O'Brien and Charles Willis. Clarke For much of the later 20th century, Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein were informally known as the "Big Three" of science-fiction writers.
They remained on cordial terms for many years, including visits in the United States and Sri Lanka. Clarke and Asimov first met in New York City in , and they traded friendly insults and gibes for decades.
They established an oral agreement, the "Clarke—Asimov Treaty", that when asked who was better, the two would say Clarke was the better science-fiction writer and Asimov was the better science writer.
Although the two later reconciled formally, they remained distant until Heinlein's death in In , Clarke wrote a sequel to titled Odyssey Two , which was made into a film in Clarke wrote two further sequels which have not been adapted into motion pictures: Odyssey Three published in and The Final Odyssey published in The whereabouts of astronaut Dave Bowman the "Star Child" , the artificial intelligence HAL , and the development of native life on Europa, protected by the alien Monolith , are revealed.
Finally, in The Final Odyssey , astronaut Frank Poole 's freeze-dried body, found by a spaceship beyond the orbit of Neptune , is revived by advanced medical science.
The novel details the threat posed to humanity by the alien monoliths, whose actions are not always as their builders had intended. Kubrick and Clarke had met in New York City in to discuss the possibility of a collaborative film project.
As the idea developed, they decided to loosely base the story on Clarke's short story, "The Sentinel", written in as an entry in a BBC short-story competition.
Originally, Clarke was going to write the screenplay for the film, but Kubrick suggested during one of their brainstorming meetings that before beginning on the actual script, they should let their imaginations soar free by writing a novel first, on which they would base the film.
Due to the hectic schedule of the film's production, Kubrick and Clarke had difficulty collaborating on the book. Clarke completed a draft of the novel at the end of with the plan to publish in in advance of the film's release in After many delays, the film was released in the spring of , before the book was completed.
The book was credited to Clarke alone. Clarke later complained that this had the effect of making the book into a novelisation , and that Kubrick had manipulated circumstances to downplay Clarke's authorship.
For these and other reasons, the details of the story differ slightly from the book to the movie. The film contains little explanation for the events taking place.
Clarke, though, wrote thorough explanations of "cause and effect" for the events in the novel. James Randi later recounted that upon seeing the premiere of , Clarke left the theatre at the intermission in tears, after having watched an eleven-minute scene which did not make it into general release where an astronaut is doing nothing more than jogging inside the spaceship, which was Kubrick's idea of showing the audience how boring space travels could be.
In , Clarke published The Lost Worlds of , which included his accounts of the production, and alternative versions of key scenes.
The "special edition" of the novel A Space Odyssey released in contains an introduction by Clarke in which he documents the events leading to the release of the novel and film.
In , Clarke continued the epic with a sequel, Odyssey Two. This novel was also made into a film, , directed by Peter Hyams for release in Because of the political environment in America in the s, the film presents a Cold War theme, with the looming tensions of nuclear warfare not featured in the novel.
The film was not considered to be as revolutionary or artistic as , but the reviews were still positive. Clarke's email correspondence with Hyams was published in The book also included Clarke's personal list of the best science-fiction films ever made.
Clarke appeared in the film, first as the man feeding the pigeons while Dr. Heywood Floyd is engaged in a conversation in front of the White House.
Clarke's award-winning novel Rendezvous with Rama was optioned for filmmaking in the early 21st century [84] [85] but this motion picture was in " development hell " as of [update].
In the early s, actor Morgan Freeman expressed his desire to produce a movie based on Rendezvous with Rama. After a drawn-out development process, which Freeman attributed to difficulties in getting financing, it appeared in that this project might be proceeding, but this was very dubious.
In late , Fincher stated the movie is unlikely to be made. There's no script and as you know, Morgan Freeman's not in the best of health right now.
We've been trying to do it but it's probably not going to happen. Clarke published a number of nonfiction books with essays, speeches, addresses, etc.
Several of his nonfiction books are composed of chapters that can stand on their own as separate essays. In particular, Clarke was a populariser of the concept of space travel.
In , he wrote Interplanetary Flight , a book outlining the basics of space flight for laymen. His books on space travel usually included chapters about other aspects of science and technology, such as computers and bioengineering.
He predicted telecommunication satellites albeit serviced by astronauts in space suits, who would replace the satellite's vacuum tubes as they burned out.
His many predictions culminated in when he began a series of magazine essays which eventually became Profiles of the Future, published in book form in The same work also contained "Clarke's First Law" and text that became Clarke's three laws in later editions.
In a essay, Clarke predicted global satellite TV broadcasts that would cross national boundaries indiscriminately and would bring hundreds of channels available anywhere in the world.
He also envisioned a "personal transceiver, so small and compact that every man carries one". He wrote: "the time will come when we will be able to call a person anywhere on Earth merely by dialing a number.
In a interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation , the interviewer asked Clarke how he believed the computer would change the future for the everyday person, and what life would be like in the year Clarke accurately predicted many things that became reality, including online banking , online shopping , and other now commonplace things.
Responding to a question about how the interviewer's son's life would be different, Clarke responded: "He will have, in his own house, not a computer as big as this, [points to nearby computer], but at least, a console through which he can talk, through his friendly local computer and get all the information he needs, for his everyday life, like his bank statements, his theatre reservations, all the information you need in the course of living in our complex modern society, this will be in a compact form in his own house An extensive selection of Clarke's essays and book chapters from to ; pieces, 63 of them previously uncollected in his books can be found in the book Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
Another collection of essays, all previously collected, is By Space Possessed Clarke's technical papers, together with several essays and extensive autobiographical material, are collected in Ascent to Orbit: A Scientific Autobiography Clarke contributed to the popularity of the idea that geostationary satellites would be ideal telecommunications relays.
It is not clear that this article was actually the inspiration for the modern telecommunications satellite.
According to John R. Pierce , of Bell Labs , who was involved in the Echo satellite and Telstar projects, he gave a talk upon the subject in published in , using ideas that were "in the air", but was not aware of Clarke's article at the time.
My answer is always, 'A patent is really a license to be sued. Though different from Clarke's idea of telecom relay, the idea of communicating via satellites in geostationary orbit itself had been described earlier.
Clarke was an avid scuba diver and a member of the Underwater Explorers Club. In addition to writing, Clarke set up several diving-related ventures with his business partner Mike Wilson.
In , while filming off Great Basses Reef, Wilson found a wreck and retrieved silver coins. Plans to dive on the wreck the following year were stopped when Clarke developed paralysis, ultimately diagnosed as polio.
A year later, Clarke observed the salvage from the shore and the surface. The ship, ultimately identified as belonging to the Mughal Emperor , Aurangzeb , yielded fused bags of silver rupees , cannon, and other artefacts, carefully documented, became the basis for The Treasure of the Great Reef.
This, he believed, would make rocket-based access to space obsolete, and more than geostationary satellites, would ultimately be his scientific legacy.
Themes of religion and spirituality appear in much of Clarke's writing. Haldane , near the end of his life, suggested in a personal letter to Clarke that Clarke should receive a prize in theology for being one of the few people to write anything new on the subject, and went on to say that if Clarke's writings did not contain multiple contradictory theological views, he might have been a menace.
A famous quotation of Clarke's is often cited: "One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
We should get rid of it as quick as we can. Near the very end of that same episode, the last segment of which covered the Star of Bethlehem , he said his favourite theory [] was that it might be a pulsar.
Despite his atheism, themes of deism are a common feature within Clarke's work. Clarke left written instructions for a funeral: "Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
Regarding freedom of information Clarke believed, "In the struggle for freedom of information, technology, not politics, will be the ultimate decider.
Clarke also wrote, "It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Regarding human jobs being replaced by robots , Clarke said: "Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be! Clarke supported the use of renewable energy , saying: "I would like to see us kick our current addiction to oil, and adopt clean energy sources Climate change has now added a new sense of urgency.
Our civilisation depends on energy, but we can't allow oil and coal to slowly bake our planet. Clarke believed, "The best proof that there's intelligent life in outer space is the fact that it hasn't come here Our technology must still be laughably primitive; we may well be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms , while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.
Both are equally terrifying. Early in his career, Clarke had a fascination with the paranormal and said it was part of the inspiration for his novel Childhood's End.
Citing the numerous promising paranormal claims that were shown to be fraudulent, Clarke described his earlier openness to the paranormal having turned to being "an almost total sceptic" by the time of his biography.
Haldane: 'The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine. Clarke's work is marked by an optimistic view of science empowering mankind's exploration of the Solar System and the world's oceans.
His images of the future often feature a Utopian setting with highly developed technology, ecology, and society, based on the author's ideals.
A recurring theme in Clarke's works is the notion that the evolution of an intelligent species would eventually make them something close to gods.
This was explored in his novel Childhood's End and briefly touched upon in his novel Imperial Earth.
This idea of transcendence through evolution seems to have been influenced by Olaf Stapledon , who wrote a number of books dealing with this theme.
Clarke has said of Stapledon's book Last and First Men that "No other book had a greater influence on my life Clarke was also well known as an admirer of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany , also having corresponded with him until Dunsany's death in He described Dunsany as "one of the greatest writers of the century.
He also listed H. Clarke won the Stuart Ballantine Medal from the Franklin Institute for the concept of satellite communications, [] [] and other honours.
Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. His brother attended the awards ceremony, and presented an award specially chosen by Arthur and not by the panel of judges who chose the other awards to the British Interplanetary Society.
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