Arthur C. Clarke: Difference between revisions

He wrote the ''Space Odyssey'' sequels himself, without the input of [[Stanley Kubrick]] -- each instalment gets increasingly more literal and with less left to the imagination, up till ''3001'' which retcons all the fantastical elements out of the original story (and only has its actual [[Independence Day|plot]] start two-thirds of the way through the book, the preceding chapters consisting entirely of the literary equivalent of [[Scenery Porn]]). The ''Time Odyssey'' series was likewise "co-written with" Stephen Baxter. It shows there, too.

 

 

A 1981 episode of ''[[The Goodies]]'' spoofed him as "the inventor of the digital lawnmower".

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* ''[[Childhood's End]]''

* ''[[The Songs of Distant Earth]]''

 

* [[Author Appeal]]:

** Communications satellites.