The Light of Other Days

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arthur c. clarké ("One of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print." - The New York Times) is the author of more than sixty books with more than 50 millión copies in print, and the winner of all the field's highest honors. He was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1986. He has won the Hugó, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Awards, at one point winning all three for a single növel, Rendezvous with Rama. His bestsellers include Childhood's End; 2001:A Space Odyssey; 2010: Odyssey Two; 2061: Odyssey Three, and, most recently, 3001: The Final Odyssey. In 1968 he shared an Academy Award nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the film version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He co-broadcasted the Apollo 11, 12 and 15 missions with Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra for CBS. In the 1980s he became widely known to television viewers as the host of Arthnr C. Clarké's Mystenous World. In 1945 he published a technical paper setting forth the idea of the... Tovább

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arthur c. clarké ("One of the most astounding imaginations ever encountered in print." - The New York Times) is the author of more than sixty books with more than 50 millión copies in print, and the winner of all the field's highest honors. He was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1986. He has won the Hugó, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Awards, at one point winning all three for a single növel, Rendezvous with Rama. His bestsellers include Childhood's End; 2001:A Space Odyssey; 2010: Odyssey Two; 2061: Odyssey Three, and, most recently, 3001: The Final Odyssey. In 1968 he shared an Academy Award nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the film version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He co-broadcasted the Apollo 11, 12 and 15 missions with Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra for CBS. In the 1980s he became widely known to television viewers as the host of Arthnr C. Clarké's Mystenous World. In 1945 he published a technical paper setting forth the idea of the geosynchronous communications satellite - a speculation realized two decades later. He has lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka since 1956. He was awarded the CBE in 1989 and knighted in 1998. The best SF writers are measured by how they compare to Róbert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarké. But we measure Arthur C. Clarké by pointing out that he belongs on the same shelf with Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. He is our greatest living SF writer. "Arthur C. Clarké, Isaac Asimov, Róbert Heinlein...now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks." -New Scientist stephen baxter ("The best SF writer in Britain" -SFX) was born in Liverpool in 1957, and graduated with a degree in mathematics from Cambridge University. He is the author of Raft, Timelike Infinity, Anti-Ice, Flux, Ring, The Time Ships, Voyage, Titán, Moonseed, and Time. All his novels have been published in both Britain and the US, and most of them have been published in Europe and Japan as well. He has won the Philip K. Dick Award, the John W. Cambell Award, the British Science Fiction Association Award, the Lasswitz Award (in Germany) and the Seiun Award (in Japan). Vissza