- Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
| Born: | 16 December 1917 Comment | | When did Arthur C. Clarke die? / Died | 19 March 2008 | | How many years did Arthur C. Clarke live? / Lived | 90 years | | Zodiac sign: | Sagittarius |
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Arthur C. Clarke facts
- He is perhaps most famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time
- Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability
- On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines
- In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularizing science
- These along with his science fiction writings eventually earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age"
- His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the towering figures of science fiction
- For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction
- Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel
- In 1934, while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society
- In 1945, he proposed a satellite communication system, an idea which won him the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1963, and other honours
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