Career

Throughout his life time Sir Arthur C. Clarke wrote more than 100 books in the field of science and his works has been translated to more than 40 languages. His first book to publish was "Rescue Party" which was written in 1945. Among his works “Childhood’s End” and Space odyssey series (2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), 2010: ODYSSEY TWO (1982), 2061: ODYSSEY THREE (1988), 3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY (1996)) became popular and still on continuous print.

In 1964, Arthur C. Clarke worked with the film director Stanley Kubrick and released a film version of “2001: A Space Odyssey”, even Neil Armstrong had seen “2001” movie before he became the first man on moon. Both of them were nominated for the Academy awards for their movie 2001. Then he worked with Peter Hyams to create a film version of “2010: A Space Odyssey”.

Arthur C. Clarke while he was in the Royal Air Force had worked with the first radar controlled system for landing aircrafts in bad weather. Experience gained with radar equipment led him write a technical paper which shows ““space stations” parked in circular orbit roughly 22240 miles above equator provide stationary target for transmitting signals”. This orbit officially named “Clarke orbit” by international Astronomical Union.

Arthur Clarke in his fiction “Profiles of the Future” points out three laws that govern science.

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

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