<p>‘Arthur Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our time’<br />Ray Bradbury</p> <p>‘Arthur C. Clarke is the prophet of the space age’<br />The Times</p> <p>‘A one-man literary Big Bang, Clarke has originated his own vast and teeming futurist universe’<br />Sunday Times</p> <p>‘The most consistently able writer science fiction has yet produced’ Kingsley Amis on Frederik Pohl</p> <p>‘In his grasp of scientific and technological possibilities, Pohl ranks with Asimov and Clarke, but he has greater originality than either’ Sunday Times</p> <p>‘I want to be remembered most as a writer – one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well’ Arthur C Clarke</p>
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Biographical note
Born in Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke has written over sixty books, among which are the science fiction classics 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood’s End, The City and the Stars and Rendezvous With Rama. He has won all the most prestigious science fiction trophies, and shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of the film of 2001. He was knighted in 1998. He died in 2008 at his home in Sri Lanka.