Astrophysicist and science fiction author
Selected Works: Novels: Prelude to Space - 1951 The Sands of Mars - 1951 Islands in the Sky - 1952 Against the Fall of Night - 1953 Childhood's End - 1953 Earthlight - 1955 The City and the Stars - 1956 The Deep Range - 1957 A Fall of Moondust - 1961 Dolphin Island - 1963 Glide Path - 1963 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968 Rendezvous with Rama - 1972 Imperial Earth - 1975 The Fountains of Paradise - 1979 2010: Odyssey Two - 1982 The Songs of Distant Earth - 1986 2061: Odyssey Three - 1988 A Meeting with Medusa - 1988 Cradle - 1988 - with Gentry Lee Rama II - 1989 - with Gentry Lee Beyond the Fall of Night - 1990 - with Gregory Benford The Ghost from the Grand Banks - 1990 The Garden of Rama - 1991 - with Gentry Lee Rama Revealed - 1993 - with Gentry Lee The Hammer of God - 1993 Richter 10 - 1996 - with Mike McQuay 3001: The Final Odyssey - 1997 The Trigger - 1999 - with Michael P. Kube-McDowell The Light of Other Days - 2000 - with Stephen Baxter Time's Eye - 2003 - with Stephen Baxter Sunstorm - 2005 - with Stephen Baxter Firstborn - 2007 - with Stephen Baxter Omnibus editions Across the Sea of Stars - 1959 - including Childhood's End, Earthlight and 18 short stories From the Ocean, From the Stars - 1962 - including The City and the Stars, The Deep Range and The Other Side of the Sky An Arthur C. Clarke Omnibus - 1965 - including Childhood's End, Prelude to Space and Expedition to Earth Prelude to Mars - 1965 - including Prelude to Space and The Sands of Mars The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night - 1968 An Arthur C. Clarke Second Omnibus - 1968 - including A Fall of Moondust, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars Four Great SF Novels - 1978 - including The City and the Stars, The Deep Range, A Fall of Moondust, Rendezvous with Rama The Space Trilogy - 2001 - including Islands in the Sky, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars Against the Fall of Night in Startling Stories. Short story collections Expedition to Earth - 1953 Reach for Tomorrow - 1956 Tales from the White Hart - 1957 The Other Side of the Sky - 1958 Tales of Ten Worlds - 1962 The Nine Billion Names of God - 1967 Of Time and Stars - 1972 The Wind from the Sun - 1972 The Best of Arthur C. Clarke - 1973 The Sentinel - 1983 Tales From Planet Earth - 1990 More Than One Universe - 1991 The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke - 2000 Non-fiction Interplanetary Flight; an introduction to astronautics - 1950 The Exploration of Space - 1951 The Coast of Coral - 1957 - Volume 1 of the Blue planet trilogy The Reefs of Taprobane; Underwater Adventures around Ceylon - 1957 - Volume 2 of the Blue planet trilogy The Making of a Moon: the Story of the Earth Satellite Program - 1957 Boy beneath the sea, Photos by Mike Wilson. Text by Arthur C. Clarke - 1958 The Challenge of the Space Ship: Previews of Tomorrow’s World - 1959 The Challenge of the Sea - 1960 Profiles of the Future; an Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible - 1962 The Treasure of the Great Reef - 1964 - Volume 3 of the Blue planet trilogy Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age - 1965 The Promise of Space - 1968 Into Space: a Young Person’s Guide to Space - by Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Silverberg - 1971 Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations - 1972 The Lost Worlds of 2001. London - 1972 Voice Across the Sea - 1975 The View from Serendip - 1977 The Odyssey File. Email correspondence with Peter Hyams - 1984 1984 - Spring: a Choice of Futures - 1984 Ascent to Orbit - a Scientific Autobiography: The Technical Writings of Arthur C. Clarke - 1984 Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography - 1989 How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Villages - 1992 — A history and survey of the communications revolution By Space Possessed - 1993 The Snows of Olympus - A Garden on Mars - 1994 - picture album with comments An Encyclopedia of Claims - Frauds - and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural - 1995 - Online Version Fractals: The Colors of Infinity - 1997 - narrator Greetings - Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Works 1934-1988. - 1999 From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Letters Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis - 2003 with C. S. Lewis The Coming of the Space Age; famous accounts of man's probing of the universe - selected and edited by Arthur C. Clarke.
Selected Honours: On 14 November 2005 Sri Lanka awarded Arthur C. Clarke its highest civilian award, the Sri Lankabhimanya (The Pride of Sri Lanka) , for his contributions to science and technology and his commitment to his adopted country. Sir Arthur is currently the Honorary Board Chair of the Institute for Cooperation in Space, founded by Carol Rosin, and serves on the Board of Governors of the National Space Society, a space advocacy organisation originally founded by Dr. Wernher von Braun. An asteroid is named in Clarke's honour, 4923 Clarke. The number was assigned prior to, and independently of, the name - 2001, however appropriate, was unavailable, having previously been assigned to Albert Einstein. A species of ceratopsian dinosaur, Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei, discovered in Inverloch in Australia.