Description
Near Fine dust jacket, minor chipping at corners, a mylar dust jacket has been added. Near Fine binding is black cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine. Several illustrations within. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 9.2″ tall x 6.3″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Arthur C. Clarke has been a household name since 1968 when the film 2001: A Space Odyssey rocketed him to international fame. As well as being one of the world’s most acclaimed and bestselling science fiction writers, Clarke has been an influential voice in science, in particular in the development of satellite technology and global communications. Yet this extraordinary man has never, apart from some fragments, written an autobiography. Neil McAlcer’s book, published in Clarke’s seventy-fifth year, is the first comprehensive account of a remarkable life.
When Clarke was born in Somerset in 1917, radio was in its infancy, but his early experiments on the farm where he grew up were to lead him to become one of the prophets of satellite technology. His 1945 article ‘Extra-Terrestrial Relays’ earned him the nickname of the Godfather of the Communications Satellite. Neil McAleer charts Clarke’s visionary approach to science which fueled both his non-fiction science writing and his fiction.
Much of Arthur C. Clarke’s fiction output has now justly achieved classic status: stories like ‘The Star’, “‘Against the Fall of Night’ and ‘The Nine Billion Names of God’; novels like Childhood’s End, The City and the Stars and Rendezvous With Rama; and his ground-breaking collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, 2001, which earned them an Academy Award nomination. Clarke has won all of science fiction’s highest tributes, including the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell awards. For his work as a populariser and prophet he has received many honors, including the Lindbergh Award in 1987 and the CBE in 1989.
Through candid interviews with Clarke himself, as well as with friends, colleagues and family Neil McAleer reveals the life experiences and creative forces that have shaped the man behind the legend. This is an authoritative and gripping account of the odyssey that took a Somerset farm boy to international fame. Neil MCA leer is the author of a number of books, including Earth love, a science fiction novel, The Cosmic Mind-boggling Book, The Body Almanac. The Mind-boggling Universe, Freedom Station and The Omni space Almanac, which won the loss Robert S. Ball Award from the Aviation Space Writers’ Association. He lives in Baltimore.
