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Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction author, inventor and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the film of the same name. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1947-1950 and again in 1953. Clarke emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956 and lived there until his death in March 2008. He was knighted in 1998.

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A first-rate tour de force * The New York Times *
Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master * Los Angeles Times *
As a science fiction writer, Clarke has all the essentials * The New Yorker *
There has been nothing like it for years; partly for the actual invention, but partly because here we meet a modern author who understands that there may be things that have a higher claim on humanity than its own 'survival' * C. S. Lewis *

Childhoods End

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      Publisher: Pan Macmillan
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 07/05/2010
      ISBN13: 9780330514019, 978-0330514019
      ISBN10: 0330514016
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction author, inventor and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the film of the same name. He was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1947-1950 and again in 1953. Clarke emigrated to Sri Lanka in 1956 and lived there until his death in March 2008. He was knighted in 1998.

      Trade Review
      A first-rate tour de force * The New York Times *
      Frighteningly logical, believable, and grimly prophetic . . . Clarke is a master * Los Angeles Times *
      As a science fiction writer, Clarke has all the essentials * The New Yorker *
      There has been nothing like it for years; partly for the actual invention, but partly because here we meet a modern author who understands that there may be things that have a higher claim on humanity than its own 'survival' * C. S. Lewis *

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