Arthur C. Clarke

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Arthur C. Clarke (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)

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Best known for his novels, Arthur C. Clarke has also written numerous science-fiction stories, which are available in several collections; two of them, “The Star” and “A Meeting with Medusa,” won major awards. Clarke is noted for scientific essays and books for general readers, usually about outer space or the ocean, and he published a few loosely structured autobiographies.

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Beginning in the 1950’s, Arthur C. Clarke became acknowledged as a major science-fiction author, winning several Hugo and Nebula Awards for his...

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• 2001 (Character Profiles)
• 2061 (Magill Book Reviews)
• Childhood’s End (Character Profiles)
• Childhood’s End (Science Fiction)
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• Fountains of Paradise, The (Science Fiction)
• Imperial Earth (Science Fiction)
• Rama Series, The (Science Fiction)
• Sentinel, The (Short Stories)
• Songs of Distant Earth, The (Magill Book Reviews)
• Space Odyssey Series, The (Science Fiction)
• Star, The (Short Stories)
• Science-Fiction Novel, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
• Science-Fiction Story, The (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)
• Theory of Short Fiction (Topical Overview--Short Fiction)