Book description
The Hammer of God is vintage Clarke: superb storytelling, authentic
science, and wonderful vignettes of life in the twenty-second century on
Earth, the Moon, Mars - and in space. 'The Hammer of God', the short
story on which this novel is based, first appeared in Time magazine in
the autumn of 1992. It was only the second piece of fiction ever to
appear in the magazine - the first having been Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World
War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of
Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics
with first class honours from King's College, London. One of the most
respected of all science-fiction writers, he also 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. To
discover more about how the legacy of Sir Arthur is being honoured
today, please visit http://www. clarkefoundation. org
