Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had ...

Clarke’s writings also foretold cellular phones, space stations, men on the moon and the Internet. There is no Hilton on the moon as there was in “2001,” but there is one in Hanoi, which ...

Personal Writings of Arthur C. Clarke Reveal the Evolution of “2001: A Space Odyssey” Works donated from the author’s archives in Sri Lanka include letters to Kubrick and an early draft of ...

The author was a young writer by the name of Arthur C Clarke. His "rocket stations" are today known as communications satellites. Eighty-seven years and the after-effects of polio have left Sir Arthur ...

Arthur C. Clarke, the hugely prolific science-fiction writer whose optimistic view of our destiny in space inspired generations of readers and dreamers, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri ...

The DNA of science fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke was on-board a private US lunar lander that, after a failed moonshot, re-entered Earth's atmosphere on Friday and burned-up on the way down.

As it turns out, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, is likely the only author of fiction whose papers happen to be archived in a repository devoted to outer space—the Smithsonian National Air and Space ...