Book description
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for
millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of
the world outside. Once, it held powers that rules the stars. But then,
as legend had it, The invaders came, driving humanity into this last
refuge. It takes one man, A Unique to break through Diaspar's stifling
inertia, to smash the legend and discover the true nature of the
Invaders. 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 the 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 lived in Sri Lanka from 1956
until his death in 2008.
