After the war, he obtained a first class degree in mathematics and physics at King's College, London.

After secondary school, he was unable to afford university and consequently acquired a job as an auditor in the pensions section of the Board of Education.ĭuring World War II, he served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a radar specialist and was involved in the early warning radar defense system which contributed to the Royal Air Force's success during the Battle of Britain. As a boy, Clarke enjoyed stargazing and enthusiastically read old American science fiction magazines (magazines which made their way to England as ballast in ships). There is an asteroid named in his honor, 4923 Clarke, as well as a species of Ceratopsian dinosaur, Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei, discovered in Inverloch, Australia.Īrthur Charles Clarke was born in Minehead, Somerset, England. He has written numerous other books, including the Rama novels and several sequels to 2001, and many short stories. This resulted in one of the truly unique collaborations in media history.

Clarke about writing a novel for the express purpose of making 'the proverbial good science-fiction movie', and the novel was still being written while the film was being made. It is loosely inspired by Clarke's short story 'The Sentinel', but it became its own novel while he was collaborating on a screen play with Stanley Kubrick. (born December 16, 1917) is an author and inventor, probably most famous for his science fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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