Book description
Divided between the tensions of behind-the-scenes preparations in
London and the drama of the launch-pad in Australia, this vintage Arthur
C. Clarke novel recounts the events leading up to an epoch-making
interplanetary space flight. Precise in his recording of facts,
perceptive in his intuitions, Clarke's historian hero is the ideal
narrator of this epic chain of events. 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
