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Arthur C. Clarke Biography and Bibliography


The following was retrieved from the SF-Lovers Forum of BITNet where
it was posted by Todd Ogasawara. It is taken from a bio/biblio sent to him
by Clarke.

Arthur C. Clarke, B.Sc., F.R.A.S., F.R.S.A., F.B.I.S. was born at
Minehead, Somerset in 1917 and educated at Huish's Grammar School, Taunton.
He joined H.M. Exchequer & Audit Department in 1936, then served in the
RAF. While running the prototype GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) radar, he
developed the basic theory of Communication Satellites, and published it in
1945.

After demobilisation, he took First Class Honours in Physics and
Mathematics at King's College, London, which later elected him Fellow. From
1948 to 1950 he was Assistant Editor of Physics Abstracts at the
Institution of Electrical Engineers. He was Chairman of the British
Interplanetary Society 1946/7, 1950/3.

Since 1954 his interest in underwater exploration has taken him to the
Great Barrier Reef of Australia and the Indian Ocean, and he is now a
director of the Colombo-based Underwater Safaris.

He has published more than seventy books and made many appearances on
Radio and TV, most notably with Walter Cronkite on CBS during the Apollo
missions. His 13-part "Mysterious World" and "Strange Powers" TV programmes
have been seen worldwide.

He is a Council Member of the Society of Authors, a Vice-President of
the H. G. Wells Society and a member of many other Scientific and Literary
Organisations. His honours include several Doctorates in science and
literature, a Franklin Institute Gold medal, The Marconi Fellowship, the
Charles A Lindbergh Award, the UNESCO-Kalinga Prize, and an Oscar
Nomination for the Screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 1987 he was
invited to New Delhi to deliver the Nehru Memorial Lecture, under the
chairmanship of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He has also been Vikram
Sarabhai Professor at the Physical Research Laboratories, Ahmedabad.

His recreations include observing the Equatorial skies with a 14"
telescope, table-tennis, diving, and playing with his Rhodesian Ridgeback
and his six computers.

He has lived in Sri Lanka for the past 30 years, and in 1979.
President Jayewardene appointed him Chancellor of the University of
Moratuwa, near Colombo, which is also the location of the government-
established Arthur Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies, specialising in
communications and computers.

BOOKS BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE (as of 05 Sep 88)
Non-Fiction
Ascent to Orbit
ASTOUNDING Days
The Challenge of the Sea
The Challenge of the Spaceship
The Coast of Coral
The Exploration of the Moon
The Exploration of Space
Going Into Space
Interplanetary Flight
The Making of a Moon
Interplanetary Flight
Profiles of the Future
The Promise of Space
The Reefs of Taprobane
Report on Planet Three
The View from Serendip
Voice Across the Sea
Voices From the Sky
The Young Traveller in Space
1984: Spring

With Mike Wilson
Boy Beneath the Sea
The First Five Fathoms
Indian Ocean Adventure
Indian Ocean Treasure
The Treasure of the Great Reef

With the Editors of LIFE
Man and Space
With the Astronauts
First on the Moon
With Robert Silverberg
Into Space
With Chesley Bonestell
Beyond Jupiter
With Simon Welfare & John Fairley
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World
Arthur C Clarke's World of Strange Powers
Arthur C Clarke's Chronicles of the Strange & Mysterious
With Peter Hyams
The Odyssey File

With the Editors of OMNI
Arthur C Clarke's July 20, 2019

Arthur Clarke has also edited:-
The Coming of the Space Age

Fiction (* indicates anthologies)
*Across the Sea of Stars
Against the Fall of Night
Childhood's End
The City and the Stars
The Deep Range
Dolphin Island
Earthlight
Expedition to Earth
A Fall of Moondust
The Fountains of Paradise
*From the Oceans, From the Stars
Glide Path
Imperial Earth
Islands in the Sky
The Lion of Comarre
The Lost Worlds of 2001
A Meeting With Medusa
*The Nine Billion Names of God
The Other Side of the Sky
*Prelude to Mars
Prelude to Space
Reach For Tomorrow
Rendezvous with Rama
The Sands of Mars
The Songs of Distant Earth
*The Sentinel
Tales From the "White Hart"
Tales of Ten Worlds
The Wind from the Sun
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
2061: Odyssey Three

U.K. Only
*An Arthur C Clarke Omnibus
*An Arthur C Clarke Second Omnibus
*The Best of Arthur C Clarke
*Four Great S.F. Novels
*Of Time and Stars
*2001, etc.

With Paul Preuss
Breaking Strain (VENUS PRIME 1)
Maelstrom (VENUS PRIME 2)

With Gentry Lee
Cradle

Science Fiction Hall of Fame, III
Three for Tomorrow
Time Probe

IN PRESS/COMPLETED (as of 25 Feb 89)
1. ASTOUNDING DAYS (Gollancz, Bantam)
2. INMARSAT HISTORY (Introduction)
3. VENUS PRIME III: HIDE AND SEEK (Afterword) (Paul Preuss/Avon)
4. VENUS PRIME IV: MEDUSA (Afterword)
5. VENUS PRIME V: JUPITER FIVE (Afterword)
6. CRADLE (Movie treatment - Peter Guber)
7. TALES FROM PLANET EARTH (Bantam/Preiss)
8. FIRST CONTACT (New American Library/Preiss)

CONTRACTED
9. RAMA II (with Gentry Lee - Bantam/Gollancz)
10. THE GARDEN OF RAMA (with Gentry Lee - Bantam 90)
11. RAMA REVEALED (with Gentry Lee - Bantam 91) "
12. THE GHOST FROM THE GRAND BANKS (Gollancz: delivery 90)
13. VENUS PRIME VI (Avon/Preiss)
14. CONVOCATION ADDRESS: "The Colours of Infinity"
15. A.C.C.'s CENTURY OF MYSTERIES (Fairley/Welfare - Collins)
16. BEYOND THE FALL OF NIGHT (Gregory Benford/Putnam)
17. BIOGRAPHY (Neil McAleer/Contemporary Books)

MOVIE/TV OPTIONS
18. A FALL OF MOONDUST (Griffin/Paramount)
19. THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH (Michael Phillips)
20. THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE (Robert Swarthe)
21. CRADLE (Warner/Guber)
22. CHILDHOOD'S END (Universal)
 
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