Arthur C. Clarke
(b. 1917)

Arthur C. Clarke, born in Somerset, England, has been fascinated with science and science fiction since childhood. While in the Air Force during World War II, he wrote and published his first science fiction stories. Since then, he has written many stories, including Childhood's End, Rendezvous with Rama, and The Nine Billion Names of God, which was named to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. His most famous work was a collaborative effort with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, a film based on Clarke's story "The Sentinel." Clarke earned the title of Grand Master from the Science Fiction Writers of America.

In addition to the respect he has earned writing fiction, he also has a reputation for being a superb scientific and technical writer. He is best known in this field for "Extraterrestrial Relays," the 1945 article in which he first proposed the idea of communications satellites.

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