Clarke was the author, or co-author, of dozens of fiction and non-fiction books. But he will likely always be best known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he later turned into a landmark film ...

Arthur C. Clarke, the British science fiction writer who died on March 19, 2008, is best remembered for the saga 2001: A Space Odyssey, published 40 years ago. The driving force behind that novel and ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Leaning forward in his wheelchair, the 83-year-old man speaks deadpan into the tape recorder: “Testing one, two, three. Testing. This is not Arthur Clarke, this is his clone.” As ...

Throughout his long life, famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke corresponded with numerous people. This blog examine the correspondents that Clarke had with Stanley Kubrick, rocket scientist ...

While other futurists predicted flying cars and robots everywhere, Clarke was more interested in where communication was headed, and his predictions are remarkably accurate decades later. Eric Mack ...

Explore Arthur C. Clarke's contribution to the space age, from predicting satellite technology to his insights on Apollo 11. Overstating Arthur C. Clarke's contribution to the space age is difficult.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke listed three wishes on his 90th birthday: for the world to embrace cleaner energy resources, for a lasting peace in his adopted home of Sri ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the mid-1990s, a friend and I sent Arthur C. Clarke a letter ...

Set in the 1970s, Arthur C. Clarke’s 1953 sci-fi novel Childhood’s End explores an alien invasion that arrives just as the Cold War superpowers are about to venture into space. The “Overlords” create ...

He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart. By Alex Williams Why we are seeing so ...