The Star | About the Author
Author Arthur C. Clarke was born in England at Minehead, Somerset, in 1917. His ancestors, as far as he has been able to trace, were all farmers. His interest in science began before he was ten years old, after his father gave him a cigarette card from a series of images of prehistoric animals. He became fascinated by paleontology and collected fossils; before long he switched to astronomy. He built small telescopes from lenses and cardboard tubes, and spent so many nights mapping the Moon that he knew the lunar landscape much better than Somerset.
During his teens, Clarke spent...
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