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Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime Vol. 4: The Medusa Encounter; Paul Preuss, 1990. Wrote Afterword; novel is based on Clarke's short story A Meeting with Medusa. Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime Vol. 5: The Diamond Moon; Paul Preuss, 1990. Wrote Afterword; novel is based on Clarke's short story Jupiter Five. Project Solar Sail; 1990. Editor.
In 1986, Clarke provided a grant to fund the prize money (initially £1,000) for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for the best science fiction novel published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. In 2001 the prize was increased to £2001, and its value now matches the year (e.g., £2005 in 2005).
The Nine Billion Names of God (1967) is a collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur C. Clarke. According to Clarke's 1972 book The Lost Worlds of 2001, the book comprises his own selection of favorites.
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke.The story follows the peaceful alien invasion [1] of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards.
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British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws, of which the third law is the best known and most widely cited. They are part of his ideas in his extensive writings about the future.
Clarke started his career as a writer by publishing nineteen science fiction stories still before the publication of his first novel, Prelude to Space, in 1951. [1] He partially stayed "in science fiction's 'consensus history' of man's expansion into space" (David N. Samuelson), with his stories, under the influence of Astounding Science Fiction editor John W. Campbell, Jr., [1] but also dealt ...