arthur c clarke

Hi. On page 76 of my edition, there’s a paragraph that I don’t understand. It begins, ’That’s our power supply,’… 1. What exactly is the power supply? 2. Why would salty seas “gobble up” kilowatts?

I can’t believe I’ve never got around to reading this book, one of Clarke’s most famous! But that is now rectified. I tend to struggle with reading older classic SF but not this one and that alone has impressed me! Childhood’s End is a first contact by a benevolent advanced alien but manages to...

Arthur C Clarke gave us such classic Childhoods End , The City and the Star, The Sand off Mars , End Rendezvous with Rama and sequels , The Sentinel ( which become the basis of 2001 film and book ) did Several sequels to it and so many other wonderful books and stories and, he came...

CLARKE is a better fiction writer ,Asimov is really good at non-fiction .

The trouble with science fiction classics is that they tend to be vehicles for new ideas for their time, but over the years can become dated. Worse, the ideas they originate are easily absorbed into the genre mainstream, meaning they are no longer the surprise they once were. First published in...

As the title says: Which are the best must-read novels of Arthur C Clarke? I read and enjoyed 2001: A Space Odyssey, though it was more of a cerebral experience than an emotional one. I tried to read Imperial Earth but struggled to get into the flat narrative and dropped it. Anyway, I figure...

I think this short was published either in INFINITY or SF ADVENTURES and I thought it had something in common with something that was published maybe in the same year in F&SF, "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M. Miller. Generally similar theme and the same tone. (Maybe Canticle was published...

Hi, Can anyone help me figure out if my book is the 1st/1st, it doesn't have the "1st, 2nd Printing" or the sequential numbers used to verify the print run. I posted some pictures any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, James

Been on the hunt for a copy of the hc 1st edition / 1st printing of this title. And you won't believe what I paid for it!

Sadly Fred Clarke passed away recently but he left us this: http://www.bis-space.com/2013/06/25/11092/out-now-arthur-c-clarke-a-life-remembered

I finally acquired these hc and pb First Editions and for the first time, I read the 9 billion story.... what a great short story!

Dreams can have many effects on people, both good and bad. At their worst they can cause people to waste their lives (and the lives of others) chasing a fantasy to no good end. However, when tempered by the knowledge of science and the power of engineering dreams (and people) can be at...

Once upon a time man crossed the stars and spread throughout the galaxy, leaving Earth behind. They met other intelligent life forms and formed alliances. Unfortunately, this took place a billion years ago. In the interim they ran across a species that was not happy about man's success...

I was thinking about Mr Clarke yesterday (the back story is that we've moved house today, and yesterday amongst a pile of stress and change I found myself in the back garden standing immobile thinking about Clarkey's stories). I used to love them, couldn't get enough, thought they opened up a...

So, I've recently started collecting Odyssey series books and the one that's giving more trouble is the first book of the series "2001 a space odyssey". I'm aware of difference between Trade and BCE editions... or so I thought. I've searched online on various rare book collecting sites to look...

It is the 22nd century,and high profile engineer Vannemar Morgan's latest project is a 24,000-mile-high space elevator to link Earth to the stars. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems... while allaying the wrath of God. For the only possible site on...

I have just finished reading Glide Path, the only non-SF novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It's clearly based on Clarke's own experiences during World War Two working on "ground controlled descent" (talking an aircraft down in conditions of poor visibility, using the newly invented, secret technology...

On the 2 disc DVD of 2001 there are several awesome ACC interviews. There is one he made in 1966 about alien life. There is one about the movie, and Kubrick, and the filming process etc. A wonderful collection, even if you were confused by 2001 the film.

Got this from Yahoo groups: " --- In acc-list@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jcsherwood@...> wrote: > > After years of research, writing and editing, Neil McAleer's "Visionary: The Odyssey of Sir Arthur C. Clarke" has been published and should be available soon at Amazon. My role was as...

Childhood's End