
     The following was retrieved from the SF-Lovers Forum of BITNet where 
it was posted by Todd Ogasawara. It is taken from a bio/biblio sent to him 
by Clarke.

     Arthur C. Clarke, B.Sc., F.R.A.S., F.R.S.A., F.B.I.S. was born at 
Minehead, Somerset in 1917 and educated at Huish's Grammar School, Taunton. 
He joined H.M. Exchequer & Audit Department in 1936, then served in the 
RAF. While running the prototype GCA (Ground Controlled Approach) radar, he 
developed the basic theory of Communication Satellites, and published it in 
1945.
 
     After demobilisation, he took First Class Honours in Physics and 
Mathematics at King's College, London, which later elected him Fellow. From 
1948 to 1950 he was Assistant Editor of Physics Abstracts at the 
Institution of Electrical Engineers. He was Chairman of the British 
Interplanetary Society 1946/7, 1950/3.
 
     Since 1954 his interest in underwater exploration has taken him to the 
Great Barrier Reef of Australia and the Indian Ocean, and he is now a 
director of the Colombo-based Underwater Safaris.
 
     He has published more than seventy books and made many appearances on 
Radio and TV, most notably with Walter Cronkite on CBS during the Apollo 
missions. His 13-part "Mysterious World" and "Strange Powers" TV programmes 
have been seen worldwide.
 
     He is a Council Member of the Society of Authors, a Vice-President of 
the H. G. Wells Society and a member of many other Scientific and Literary 
Organisations. His honours include several Doctorates in science and 
literature, a Franklin Institute Gold medal, The Marconi Fellowship, the 
Charles A Lindbergh Award, the UNESCO-Kalinga Prize, and an Oscar 
Nomination for the Screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 1987 he was 
invited to New Delhi to deliver the Nehru Memorial Lecture, under the 
chairmanship of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He has also been Vikram 
Sarabhai Professor at the Physical Research Laboratories, Ahmedabad.
 
     His recreations include observing the Equatorial skies with a 14" 
telescope, table-tennis, diving, and playing with his Rhodesian Ridgeback 
and his six computers.
 
     He has lived in Sri Lanka for the past 30 years, and in 1979.  
President Jayewardene appointed him Chancellor of the University of 
Moratuwa, near Colombo, which is also the location of the government-
established Arthur Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies, specialising in 
communications and computers.
 
 
BOOKS BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE (as of 05 Sep 88)
Non-Fiction
Ascent to Orbit
ASTOUNDING Days
The Challenge of the Sea
The Challenge of the Spaceship
The Coast of Coral
The Exploration of the Moon
The Exploration of Space
Going Into Space
Interplanetary Flight
The Making of a Moon
Interplanetary Flight
Profiles of the Future
The Promise of Space
The Reefs of Taprobane
Report on Planet Three
The View from Serendip
Voice Across the Sea
Voices From the Sky
The Young Traveller in Space
1984: Spring
 
With Mike Wilson
Boy Beneath the Sea
The First Five Fathoms
Indian Ocean Adventure
Indian Ocean Treasure
The Treasure of the Great Reef
 
With the Editors of LIFE
Man and Space
With the Astronauts
First on the Moon
With Robert Silverberg
Into Space
With Chesley Bonestell
Beyond Jupiter
With Simon Welfare & John Fairley
Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious  World
Arthur C Clarke's World of  Strange Powers
Arthur C Clarke's Chronicles of the Strange & Mysterious
With Peter Hyams
The Odyssey File
 
With the Editors of OMNI
Arthur C Clarke's July 20, 2019
 
Arthur Clarke has also edited:-
The Coming of the Space Age
 
Fiction (* indicates anthologies)
*Across the Sea  of Stars
Against the  Fall of Night
Childhood's End
The City and the Stars
The Deep Range
Dolphin Island
Earthlight
Expedition to Earth
A Fall of Moondust
The Fountains of Paradise
*From the Oceans, From the Stars
Glide Path
Imperial Earth
Islands in the Sky
The Lion of Comarre
The Lost Worlds of 2001
A Meeting With Medusa
*The Nine Billion  Names  of God
The Other Side of the Sky
*Prelude to Mars
Prelude to Space
Reach For Tomorrow
Rendezvous with  Rama
The Sands of Mars
The Songs of Distant Earth
*The Sentinel
Tales From the "White Hart"
Tales of Ten Worlds
The Wind from the Sun
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: Odyssey Two
2061: Odyssey Three
 
U.K. Only
*An Arthur C Clarke Omnibus
*An Arthur C Clarke Second  Omnibus
*The Best of Arthur C Clarke
*Four Great S.F.  Novels
*Of Time and  Stars
*2001, etc.
 
With Paul Preuss
Breaking Strain  (VENUS PRIME 1)
Maelstrom        (VENUS PRIME 2)
 
With Gentry  Lee
Cradle
 
Science Fiction Hall of Fame, III
Three for Tomorrow
Time Probe
 
IN PRESS/COMPLETED (as of 25 Feb 89)
1. ASTOUNDING DAYS (Gollancz, Bantam)
2. INMARSAT HISTORY (Introduction)
3. VENUS PRIME III: HIDE AND SEEK (Afterword) (Paul Preuss/Avon)
4. VENUS PRIME IV: MEDUSA (Afterword)
5. VENUS PRIME V: JUPITER FIVE (Afterword)
6. CRADLE (Movie treatment - Peter Guber)
7. TALES FROM PLANET EARTH (Bantam/Preiss)
8. FIRST CONTACT (New American Library/Preiss)
 
CONTRACTED
 9. RAMA II (with Gentry Lee - Bantam/Gollancz)
10. THE GARDEN OF RAMA (with Gentry Lee - Bantam 90)
11. RAMA REVEALED (with Gentry Lee - Bantam 91)       "
12. THE GHOST FROM THE GRAND BANKS (Gollancz:  delivery 90)
13. VENUS PRIME VI (Avon/Preiss)
14. CONVOCATION  ADDRESS: "The  Colours of Infinity"
15. A.C.C.'s CENTURY OF MYSTERIES (Fairley/Welfare - Collins)
16. BEYOND THE FALL OF NIGHT (Gregory Benford/Putnam)
17. BIOGRAPHY (Neil McAleer/Contemporary Books)
 
MOVIE/TV  OPTIONS
18. A FALL OF MOONDUST (Griffin/Paramount)
19. THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH (Michael Phillips)
20. THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE (Robert Swarthe)
21. CRADLE (Warner/Guber)
22. CHILDHOOD'S END (Universal)


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