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Arthur C. Clarke (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Arthur C. Clarke is best known for novels that chronicle near- future space and sea exploration or suggest transcendence of human form and limitations. He published an autobiographical novel based on his experience with radar in World War II, and he adapted several of his novels for film: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) for Stanley Kubrick, 2010: Odyssey Two (1982), and Cradle (1988). In 1997, 3001: The Final Odyssey was published. He contributed numerous articles on science and speculation, edited various scientific and...

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