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A Short Biography of Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Author Name:

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Born As:

Arthur Charles Clarke

Other Names:

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE

Born:

16 Dec 1917

Died:

19 Mar 2008




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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.