![]() ![]() His mother offered riding lessons to offset their money troubles, but she was unable to provide enough money for her son to attend university. When Clarke was 14 his father died and the family's savings declined. The eldest of four children, he enjoyed stargazing as a child and had a great enthusiasm for sci-fi pulp magazines like Astounding Stories. ![]() The recipient of at least three Hugo Awards and two Nebulas, as well as a host of other acknowledgements, he was also well recognized as an inventor, an editor, and a science commentator.Īrthur Charles Clarke was born 16 December 1917 in the English coastal town of Minehead, in Somerset. Clarke's fiction is credited with combining flawlessly accurate technical details with such philosophically expansive themes as "spiritual" rebirth and the search for man's place in the universe. Heinlein, he was especially identified with his novels Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Deemed on par with authors like Isaac Asimov and Robert A. ![]() Clarke was one of the world's best-selling authors of science fiction and was widely considered one of the masters of the genre. Remains: Buried, Colombo General Cemetery, Colombo, Sri Lanka ![]()
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