Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur Charles Clarke (fæddur 16. desember 1917 í Minehead á Englandi, látinn 19. mars 2008 í Colombo á Srí Lanka) var breskur rithöfundur og uppfinningamaður. Hann er þekktastur fyrir að hafa skrifað bókina 2001: A space oddyssey árið 1968.

Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
Clarke á heimili sínu í Colombo á Srí Lanka árið 2005
Fæddur:16. desember 1917(1917-12-16)
Mineshead, Somerset, Englandi
Látinn:19. mars 2008 (90 ára)
Colombo, Srí Lanka
Þjóðerni:Fáni Englands Englendingur
Virkur:Rithöfundur og uppfinningamaður
Tegundir bókmennta:Vísindaskáldskapur
Umfangsefni:Vísindi
Frumraun:Childhood's End
Undir áhrifum frá:H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Lord Dunsany
Heimasíða:http://www.clarkefoundation.org/

Ritaskrá, valin rit

Skáldsögur

  • Against the Fall of Night (1948, 1953), upphafleg útgáfa af The City and the Stars
  • Prelude to Space (1951)
  • The Sands of Mars (1951)
  • Islands in the Sky (1952)
  • Childhood's End (1953) - Síðustu jarðarbúarnir, Ugluútgáfan, 1968
  • Earthlight (1955) - Jarðskin, Vasaútgáfan, 1972
  • The City and the Stars (1956)
  • The Deep Range (1957)
  • A Fall of Moondust (1961)
  • Dolphin Island – A Story of the People of the Sea (1963)
  • Glide Path (1963)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), skrifuð samhliða gerð myndarinnar eftir Stanley Kubrick
  • Rendezvous with Rama (1973)
  • Imperial Earth (1976)
  • The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
  • 2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
  • The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
  • 2061: Odyssey Three (1987)
  • The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990)
  • The Hammer of God (1993)
  • 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)

Smásagnasöfn

  • Expedition to Earth (1953)
  • Reach for Tomorrow (1956)
  • Tales from the White Hart (1957)
  • The Other Side of the Sky (1958)
  • Tales of Ten Worlds (1962)
  • The Nine Billion Names of God (1967)
  • Of Time and Stars (1972)
  • The Wind from the Sun (1972)
  • The Best of Arthur C. Clarke (1973)
  • The Sentinel (1983)
  • Tales From Planet Earth (1990)
  • The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2001)

Fræðirit

  • Interplanetary Flight: an introduction to astronautics (1950), London: Temple Press, ISBN 0-425-06448-4
  • The Exploration of Space (1951), New York: Harper & Brothers
  • The Exploration of the Moon (1954), ásamt R. A. Smith, New York: Harper Brothers
  • The Coast of Coral (1955), London: Frederick Muller
  • Boy Beneath the Sea (1958), New York: Harper, ISBN 0060212667
  • Voice Across the Sea (1958), New York: Harper
  • Man and Space (1964), í samvinnu með Life. - Könnun geimsins, Almenna bókafélagið, 1966
  • The Treasure of the Great Reef (1964), ásamt Mike Wilson, New York: Harper & Row
  • Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age (1965), New York: Harper & Row
  • The Promise of Space (1968), New York: Harper & Row
  • The View from Serendip (1977), New York: Random House, ISBN 0-394-41796-8
  • 1984: Spring / A Choice of Futures (1984), collected non-fiction writings, New York: Del Rey / Ballantine, ISBN 0-345-31357-7
  • Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography (1989), London: Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-04446-2
  • How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village (1992), London: Gollancz, ISBN 0-575-05226-0
  • Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Essays, 1934–1998 (1999), New York: St. Martin's Press, and London: Voyager


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