...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...
...Positioning System. But it was all abstract until I recently acquired a modern GPS myself. My reaction reminded me of Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The basis for GPS is 29 satellites...
...Positioning System. But it was all abstract until I recently acquired a modern GPS myself. My reaction reminded me of Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The basis for GPS is 29 satellites...
...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...
...see if I can take a picture of a book it CAN'T recognize, and so far, I haven't been able to. No idea how it works, but Arthur C Clarke's famous comment about any sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic is getting closer and closer I've...
...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...