...the 90s. The shots of the sun in Sunshine (2006): Astronauts venture into space to reignite the sun. The plot may be sub-Arthur C Clarke hokum, but the imagery of the Sun itself, seen from Jamal escapes from a locked-up makeshift toilet by burrowing through...
...Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space, where the author examines the work of Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee, Gerard O'Neill, and Ben Bova, among others, in what he calls the tradition of American astrofuturism.8 All...
...the same concept today. "It was done in innocence - it never struck us as controversial," he said. "The idea comes from an Arthur C. Clarke book called Childhood's End. "I met the children's mother at a book signing in Cambridge recently and she told me how...
...reached the Moon provided that uplift perfectly. There was a further twist to the mission's timing. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke's visionary epic 2001: A Space Odyssey was then showing in cinemas round the globe. (The Apollo 8 crew had attended its...
...musicians, painters and men of letters, including Mark Twain, William Burroughs and Tennessee Williams. In one room, Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey, and in another Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can't Go Home Again. Dylan Thomas drank 18 glasses of whisky...
...cause you to drive me into the swamp with your torches and pitchforks. First, the benign angle. I once read an interview with Arthur Clarke (possibly by Jeremy Bernstein?) in which Clarke answered this question in a way that I think anyone interested in either...
...model of the SF scientist, meddling where he (usually a he - SF was very masculine for a long time) had no right to meddle. Arthur Clarke, despite the woodenness of his characters and dialogues, at least stood out in that respect - scientists were the good...
...Ford. A skull featured prominently in the film where "Mike" Mitchell-Hedges is mentioned twice. Science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke used it as the logo of his Mysterious World TV series in the 1980s. It was last valued in the 1970s at $500,000 (£336,000)....
...Arthur C. Clarke’s 1972 novel, Rendezvous with Rama, a huge cylindrical alien space ark is detected entering the solar system. At first astronomers simply catalog it as a comet from deep space. Then they realized it doesn’t vary in brightness as it rotates,...
... OK, lets just start with Chris Rock. But we can not fail to mention Mrs. Peel in that classic Avengers episode, snake around her shoulders, spiky collar around her neck, us around her little finger... Was I born too late? This is the most basic exercise...