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Arthur C Clarke

June 2011

  • Max Mathews

    Max Mathews obituary

    A computer music pioneer, he influenced 2001: A Space Odyssey

13 May 2011

  • UFO over the City, 1980 (oil on canvas) by Buhler, Michael

    The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction

    To celebrate the opening of the British Library's science fiction exhibition Out of this World, we asked leading SF writers to choose their favourite novel or author in the genre
  • Isaac Asimov

    Great voices of science fiction

    In these interviews, recorded between 1987 and 2001, past masters of the genre discuss why they write SF, the future and how 'this thing called the internet' might change the world
  • 'Monsters Vs Aliens' Film - 2009

    10 of the best
    Ten of the best

    Aliens in science fiction

April 2011

  • Alien finding institute Seti runs out of cash to operate telescope

    Alien finding institute Seti runs out of cash to operate telescope

    Organisation's brand new $50m array put in hibernation, reducing chances of finding elusive extraterrestrial signal

March 2011

  • '2010' FILM - 1984

    Science book club
    Profiles of the Future by Arthur C Clarke – review

    Tim Radford

    Half a century ago, Arthur C Clarke made predictions that were to prove uncannily accurate

February 2011

  • Arthur C Clarke

    Back to the Hugos
    Back to the Hugos: Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C Clarke

    Sam Jordison: Clarke's account of a vast alien object hurtling towards our sun is a stone-cold classic

December 2010

  • Arthur C Clarke

    Arthur C Clarke award calls on SF fans to help reinvent the prize

    With funding from its founder now at an end, the prize is inviting suggestions from readers on how it should move into the future

January 2010

  • Senators on Electric Scooters

    Books blog
    Arthur C Clarke and the end of upbeat futurology

    Darragh McManus: Reading the great sage of SF's Profiles of the Future makes one miss the era when the future seemed full of fantastic possibility

October 2008

  • Antikythera: ancient computer

    Science Weekly
    Science Weekly: The world's first computer

    The amazing Antikythera mechanism; the 1000mph super car; and the atheist bus

July 2008

  • Arthur C Clarke

    "Clarke's First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he says it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Clarke's Second Law: The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible. Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

May 2008

  • Genetically-modified assassin takes SF prize

    Richard Morgan's Black Man wins the 2008 Arthur C Clarke award

March 2008

  • Arthur C Clarke in 1984

    Imperial earth

    Ian Williams

  • Arthur C Clarke buried as thousands mourn

  • Arthur C. Clarke

    Brave new worlds

  • Sir Arthur C Clarke

  • Arthur C Clarke, writer and futurist, dies at 90

  • Scientists and writers pay tribute to Arthur C Clarke

  • Arthur C Clarke dies aged 90

December 2007

  • Arthur C Clarke's 90th birthday wish list

    Arthur C Clarke, author of science fiction including 2001: A Space Odyssey, celebrates his 90th birthday today and continues to embrace new technology: he has marked it by releasing a video on the website YouTube
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