Author

Books by Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction author, science writer, and futurist whose work defined the optimistic, science-grounded wing of twentieth-century science fiction. His novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, developed in parallel with Stanley Kubrick's film, remains one of the genre's most famous works. He authored more than a hundred books and is credited with proposing the geostationary satellite communications concept. He won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards and received a knighthood in 1998. He lived for decades in Sri Lanka and died in 2008.