The City and the Stars

Arthur C. Clarke

Language: English

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17 of 1975 Locus Award for All-Time Best Novel 34 of 1998 Locus Award for All-Time Best SF Novel before 1990 Library - Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel SF: The 100 Best Novels 1949-1984 Science Fiction The 5-Parsec Shelf _isfdb far future

Publisher: Frederick Muller Ltd

Published: Jan 2, 1956

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About the Author

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King’s college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers’ Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, ‘The Sentinel’. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.