But what I really mean to say is that this is a story where the science is one of the central aspects of the story. It's tempting for me to call this book "Traditional Science Fiction." Or "Classic Science Fiction" or something along those lines. I don't know why that strikes me as strange, but it does. It's odd to think that this book was published 40 years ago. 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. book.Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. A few odd spots to the reverse of the dust wrapper. Light edge wear to the dust wrapper, resulting in a couple of small closed tears. Very light fading to the head and tail of the spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Clarke, one of the most important and influential science fiction writers ever, best known for '2001: A Space Odyssey'. The exciting novel is told from the point of view of human explorers who try to uncover the mysteries of the starship.This was one of Clarke's most important works, winning both the Hugo and Nebula awards.By Arthur C. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.?'Rendezvous With Rama' is a popular science fiction novel set in the 2130s, involving a cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar system. Clarke's most important sci-fi novels, a thrilling adventure novel in a lovely dust wrapper.
A beautiful first edition copy of one of Arthur C.
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