Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British-Sri Lankan author, essayist, inventor and host of the British television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World.
Clarke co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the 100 most influential films ever released. Clarke was an avid populariser of space travel, an extraordinarily successful futurist. He wrote more than a dozen books and many essays for popular magazines. In 1961, he received the Kalinga Prize, a UNESCO award for popularising science. Clarke's science and science-fiction writings earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His science-fiction writings in particular earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership, made him one of the towering figures of the genre. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov were known and are still remembered as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
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- The City and the Stars 1953
- The Songs of Distant Earth