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Arthur C Clarke


(Arthur Charles Clarke)
UK flag (1917 - 2008)

aka E G O'Brien, Charles Willis

Arthur C Clarke is probably the world's best known and bestselling science fiction writer. He won innumerable international awards for his fiction, for his science writing and for his inspirational role as one of the chief prophets of the space age. His collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey set new standards for SF films, and he has also presented the television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World and its successors. He was described by the New York Times as being "awesomely informed about physics and blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print."

Sir Arthur C Clarke died March 18th 2008 in his adopted home of Sri Lanka.
 

Awards: Hugo (2014), Nebula (1986), Campbell (1974), BSFA (1973)  see all

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Space Trilogy
   1. Islands in the Sky (1952)
   2. Earthlight (1955)
   3. The Sands of Mars (1951)
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Space Odyssey
   1. 2001 (1968)
   2. 2010 (1982)
   3. 2061 (1987)
   4. 3001 (1997)
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Rama
   1. Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
   2. Rama II (1989) (with Gentry Lee)
   3. The Garden of Rama (1991) (with Gentry Lee)
   4. Rama Revealed (1993) (with Gentry Lee)
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Time Odyssey (with Stephen Baxter)
   1. Time's Eye (2003)
   2. Sunstorm (2005)
   3. Firstborn (2007)
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Novels
   Prelude to Space (1951)
     aka Master of Space
   Against the Fall of Night (1953)
   Childhood's End (1953)
   The City and the Stars (1956)
   The Deep Range (1957)
   A Fall of Moondust (1961)
   Dolphin Island (1963)
   Glide Path (1963)
   The Space Dreamers (1969)
   Imperial Earth (1975)
   The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
   The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
   Cradle (1987) (with Gentry Lee)
   Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Gregory Benford)
   The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990)
   The Hammer of God (1993)
   Richter 10 (1996) (with Mike McQuay)
   The Trigger (1999) (with Michael P Kube-McDowell)
   The Light of Other Days (2000) (with Stephen Baxter)
   The Last Theorem (2008) (with Frederik Pohl)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Parasite (1953)
   Transit of Earth (1971)
   The Fate of Fu Manchu (1998)
   The Wire Continuum (1998) (with Stephen Baxter)
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Anthologies edited
   Time Probe (1967)
   Three for Tomorrow (1972)
   Project Solar Sail (1986) (with David Brin)
   The Best of Sci-Fi and Fantasy (1999) (with Orson Scott Card)
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Non fiction show
 
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Books containing stories by Arthur C Clarke
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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The Book of Mars (2022)
An Anthology of Fact and Fiction
edited by
Stuart Clark

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Awards
2014 Retro Hugo Award for Best Short Story : How We Went to Mars
2004 Retro Hugo Award for Best Short Story : The Nine Billion Names of God
1986 Grand Master Award
1980 Hugo Award for Best Novel : The Fountains of Paradise
1979 Nebula Award for Best Novel : The Fountains of Paradise
1974 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel : Rendezvous with Rama
1974 John W. Campbell Memorial Award : Rendezvous with Rama
1974 Hugo Award for Best Novel : Rendezvous with Rama
1973 Nebula Award for Best Novella : A Meeting with Medusa [short story]
1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel : Rendezvous with Rama
1973 BSFA Award for Best Novel : Rendezvous with Rama
1956 Hugo Award for Best Short Story : The Star

Award nominations
2002 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
1999 Sidewise Award for Best Short-Form Alternate History (nominee) : The Wire Continuum
1998 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : 3001: The Final Odyssey
1995 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Rama Revealed
1994 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Hammer of God
1992 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Garden of Rama
1991 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Ghost from the Grand Banks
1990 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Rama II
1988 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : 2061: Odyssey Three
1987 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Songs of Distant Earth
1984 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Sentinel
1983 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : 2010: Odyssey Two
1983 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : 2010: Odyssey Two
1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Fountains of Paradise
1979 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Fountains of Paradise
1977 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Imperial Earth
1976 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Imperial Earth
1972 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : A Meeting with Medusa [short story]
1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Fall of Moondust


Arthur C Clarke recommends
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The Space Cadet (2014)
(Company of Heroes, book 5)
Ron Miller
"Ron Miller is unfairly talented."
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Mars Underground (1997)
William K Hartmann
"A realistic and exciting view of the future presence of humans on Mars."
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Encounter with Tiber (1996)
Buzz Aldrin and John Barnes
"A master of the genre."

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