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* [[Author Appeal]]:
** Communications satellites.
** In a somewhat sad example, rarely do love interests work out for the good. A common phrase used in his collections of short stories is "married another man." In the ''Space Odyssey'' series, Heywood Floyd is divorced twice with the second time being on his way to Jupiter. In ''3001'' the first woman Poole falls for ends up horrified due to a 'deformation', and the second relationship falls apart romantically
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: Or Soviet Russia in stories set after 1990.
* [[Invisible to Gaydar]]: According to [[Michael Moorcock]]. Others placed him as [[Ambiguously Gay]]; he himself, when asked whether or not he was gay, said, "no, merely [[Exact Words|mildly]] [[Have a Gay Old Time|cheerful]]."
* [[Ironic Echo]]: Pretty much all of the
* [[Local Hangout]]: The
* [[Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness]]: Clarke's works, for the most part, lie firmly on the "hard" side of this sliding scale. Hardly surprising, given that he had been a radar operator in [[World War II]] and that training was in mathematics and physics (he was the first to propose communications satellites). In ''[[The Songs of Distant Earth]]'', for example, he had to invoke the rather speculative possibility of zero-point energy just so he'd have a power source for a ''slower''-than-light starship.
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* [[No Poverty]]: In
* [[Reclusive Artist]]: Was famously hard to access in his later years.
* [[Technology Marches On]]:
** If you read his collected short stories, many of his
** Stories involving manned planetary/lunar expeditions/colonies.
** The British having anything to do with the above lunar expeditions.
** One of his most famous short stories, "The Nine Billion Names of God", goes for a while into the extensive technological contortions required to print out the titular names in the specialized language and alphabet used by the monks -- something that could probably be arranged within a day on a dot-matrix or laser printer.
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: Most of Clarke's short stories, and many chapters of his novels, end with a big twist (or a big reveal) in the ''very last sentence.''
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* [[Twist Ending]]: Used in many of his short stories, many times the ''final'' sentence is all that's required for the twist. What exactly version of the various twist's will depend on the story.
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