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Arthur C. Clarke Books Pdf Arthur c. clarke books pdf Continue British science fiction writer Arthur Clarke redirects here. For other purposes, see Arthur C. Clarke (disambiguation). SirArthur C. ClarkeCBE FRASClarke in February 1965, on one of the sets 2001: A Space Odyssey Born charles Clarke (1917-12-16)16 December 1917Minehead, Somerset, England19 March 2008 (2008-03-19) (aged 90)Colombo, Sri LankaPen nameCharles E. O'Brien, inventor, futuristEngliaEngliaEngrickkk College LondonPeriod1946-2008 (professional science fiction writer)GenreHard Science FictionPopular ScienceTojectScienceNotable works End of Childhood 2001: A Space Odyssey Rendezvous with Rama Fountains Of Paradise by Marilyn Mayfield (m. 1953; div. 1964) Websiteclarkefoundation.org Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (December 16, 1917 - March 19, 2008) - English science fiction writer , science fiction writer, futurist, inventor, underwater explorer and presenter of television series. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film Space Odyssey, one of the most influential films of all time. Clark was a science writer, an avid popularizer of space travel and a futurist of outstanding abilities. He has written more than a dozen books and many essays for popular magazines. In 1961, he received the Kalinga Prize, the UN Prize for the Promotion of Science. Clark's sci-fi writings earned him the nickname The Prophet of the Space Age. His sci-fi works in particular earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the highest figures of the genre. Over the years, Clark, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov have been known as the big three of science fiction. Clark has been a supporter of space travel all his life. In 1934, as a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed a satellite communications system using geostationary orbits. He was chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946-1947 and again in 1951-1953. Clarke emigrated from England to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1956 to pursue his interest in scuba diving. In the same year he discovered the underwater ruins of the ancient temple of Toneswaram in Trincomalee. Clarke increased his popularity in the 1980s as host of television shows such as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World. He lived in Sri Lanka until his death. Clarke was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 for services to British cultural interests in Sri Lanka. In 1998 he was knighted, and in 2005 he was awarded the highest civilian honor of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka. Biography Early years Clarke was born in Minhead, Somerset, England, and grew up in nearby bishops Lydeard. As a child he lived on a farm where he loved to look at the stars, collect fossils and read American science fiction Logs. He received secondary education at Huish High School in Taunton. Some of his early influences included cigarette cards of dinosaurs, which led to enthusiasm for fossils dating back to around 1925. Clarke explained his interest in science fiction by reading three subjects: the November issue of Amazing Stories in 1929; The Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon in 1930; and the Conquest of Space by David Lasser in 1931. As a teenager he joined the Junior Astronomical Association and contributed to urania, a society magazine that was edited by Glasgow's Marion Eadie. At Clark's request, she added the Astronautics Section, which published a series of articles he had written about spacecraft and space travel. Clarke also contributed parts to the corner of debates and debates, counterblast to Urania's article suggesting the case against space travel, and also his memories of the Walt Disney film Fantasia. He moved to London in 1936 and joined the Board of Education as a pension auditor. Some science fiction writers and he lived in the same apartment in Gray's Inn Road, where he earned the nickname Ego because of the takeover of topics that interested him, and later called his office filled with memorabilia as his ego-camera. During World War II, from 1941 to 1946, he served in the Royal Air Force as a radar specialist and participated in the early warning radar system, which contributed to the success of the RAF during the Battle of Britain. Clarke spent most of his military service working on the Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) radar, as described in the semi-authoric Glide Path, his only sci-fi novel. Although the GCA did not see much practical use during the war, it proved vital to the Berlin Air Transport 1948-1949 after several years of development. Clarke originally served in the ranks, and was a corporal instructor on the radar at Radio No 2 School, RAF Yatesbury in Wiltshire. On May 27, 1943, he was appointed as a pilot (technical branch). On November 27, 1943, he was promoted to the position of flight officer. He was appointed Chief Training Instructor at RAF Honiley in Warwickshire and was discharged as a lieutenant. After the war, he received a first-grade degree in Mathematics and Physics from King's College London. He then worked as an assistant editor at Physics Abstracts. Clarke was president of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1951 to 1953. Although he was not the creator of the concept of geostationary satellites, one of his most important contributions in this area may be his idea that they would be ideal telecommunication relays. He put forward this idea in a document circulated privately to the major technical members interplanetary society in 1945. Teh Teh was published in Wireless World in October of that year. Clark has also written a number of non-fiction books describing the technical details and social consequences of rocket and space flight. The most notable of these may be interplanetary flight: Introduction to Astronautics (1950), Space Exploration (1951) and The Promise of Space (1968). In recognition of these contributions, a geostationary orbit of 36,000 km above the equator is officially recognized by the Clark International Astronomical Union. After his release in 1968, Clark became very much in demand as a science and technology commentator, especially during the Apollo space program. On July 20, 1969, Clark appeared as a commentator for the CBS News broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Sri Lanka and Clark's diving lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008, first in Unawatun on the south coast and then in Colombo. Initially, his friend Mike Wilson and he traveled around Sri Lanka, diving in the coral waters around the coast with the Beachcombers Club. In 1957, while diving at Trincomalee, Clark discovered the underwater ruins of the temple, which later made the region popular with divers. He later described it in his 1957 book, The Reefs of Tabrana. It was his second book on diving since 1956's The Coast of Coral. Although Clark lived mainly in Colombo, he set up a small diving school and a simple dive shop near Trincomalee. He often dived in Hikkaduwa, Trincomalee and Nilaveli. The Sri Lankan government granted Clark guest status in 1975. He was so highly respected that when his fellow science fiction writer Robert Heinlein came to visit, the Sri Lankan Air Force provided a helicopter to deliver them across the country. In the early 1970s, Clark signed a contract to publish three books, a record for a science fiction writer at the time. The first of the three was a date with Rama in 1973, which won all the major genre awards and spawned sequels, which together with the 2001 series formed the basis of his later career. Clark receives the Marconi International Award for scholarships from Prince Klaus of the Netherlands in 1982. In 1986, Clark was named Grand Master of Science Fiction Writers of America. In 1988 he was diagnosed with post-polio syndrome, initially contracted polio in 1962, and needed to use a wheelchair most of the time thereafter. Clarke was vice-patron of the British Polio Scholarship for many years. In 1989, in honor of the queen's birthday, Clarke was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to British cultural interests in Sri Lanka. In the same year he became the first rector of the International Space University, who worked from 1989 to 2004. He also served rector of Moratawa University in Sri Lanka from 1979 to 2002. In 1994, Clark starred in a sci- fi film; he portrayed himself in the TV movie Without Warning, an American production about an apocalyptic alien first contact script presented in the form of an artificial news release. Clark also became active in promoting gorilla protection and became the patron of the Gorilla Organization, which fights to save gorillas. When in 2001 tantalum mining for the production of mobile phones threatened gorillas, he lent his voice to their cause. The dive shop he set up continues to operate from Trincomalee through the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. The host of the television series in the 1980s and early 1990s, Clarke presented his television programs The Mysterious World of Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers and Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious Universe. On a trip to Florida in 1953, Clark met and quickly married Marilyn Mayfield, a 22-year-old American woman who divorced her young son. They separated for good after six months, although the divorce was not finalized until 1964. Marriage was incompatible from the beginning, Clark said. Clarke never married, but was close to Sri Lankan Leslie Ekanayake (July 13, 1947-July 4, 1977), whom Clarke called his only perfect friend of his life in dedicating his novel Fountains of Paradise.
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