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[1] [2] He also designed jewellery to complement some of his paintings. Born in Erith , Kent , White studied at the Medway College of Art between 1968 and 1972. [ 2 ] Following this, he spent two years working for various advertising studios, until he received his first book cover commission in 1974, for Arthur C Clarke 's The Other Side of the ...
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).
Galaxy reviewer Floyd C. Gale described the collection as "an excellent cross-section of the art of one of science fiction's foremost exponents." [2] Anthony Boucher, however, characterized most of the shorter pieces as inferior work, excluded from Clarke's previous collection, but praised two (unspecified) novelettes as "uniquely authentic Clarke."
The original novelette "The Songs of Distant Earth" was the cover story for the June 1958 issue of If.Cover art by Mel Hunter. The Songs of Distant Earth is a 1986 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, based upon his 1958 short story of the same title.
The View from Serendip is a collection of essays and anecdotes by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1977.The pieces include Clarke's experiences with diving, Sri Lanka, his relationships with other science fiction authors such as Isaac Asimov, and other personal memoirs.
Clarke reviewed and approved the final manuscript of The Last Theorem in early March 2008, just days before he died. [9] [10] Pohl died five years later in September 2013. [11] Arthur C. Clarke at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 2005. Some of the concepts that appear in The Last Theorem originally appeared in Clarke's earlier works.
Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gregory Benford.The first part of Beyond the Fall of Night is a reprint of Clarke's Against the Fall of Night while the second half is a "sequel" by Gregory Benford that takes place many years later.
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.