With a title like this, it must be deep!ĭeep and murky, sorta like my high school freshman daily regimen. They were announcing this Sunday's program - an SF offering from one of my fave authors in Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine, which I usually gulped down each month like candy.īut I hadn't read this one. I twiddled the dial till I found our Canadian national radio broadcasting bandwidth. It was a dreamy fall morning in 1963 when I absently turned on my Grandfather's cabinet style old tube-technology radio. I'll try to remember the day I MYSELF heard it! There's a little surprise in my review, cuz I'm gonna gift you the story in AUDIOBOOK form at the end! Get ready.

Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956.

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction.

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