Book description
In addition to being one of Science Fiction's greatest writers, Sir
Arthur C. Clarke was also one of our foremost thinkers and visionaries,
producing a number of highly readable and important non-fiction works.
Report of Planet Three is a collection of 23 essays on the future of Man
and his technology, including essays on space, satellite communications,
the internet, alien contact, UFO debunking and relativity. 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
