2001: a space odyssey ditulis bersamaan dengan versi filmnya yang disutradarai stanley kubrick.
film tersebut memperoleh inspirasi dasar dari cerita pendek clarke berjudul the sentinel, namun kemudian dibuatkan novelnya sendiri saat clarke berkolaborasi dalam menulis naskah dengan kubrick.
clarke telah menulis banyak buku lainnya, termasuk rendezvous with rama dan beberapa lanjutan dari 2001, serta beberapa cerita pendek.
ada sebuah asteroid yang dinamakan berdasarkan namanya, 4923 clarke, serta sejenis spesies dinosaurus, serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei, yang ditemukan di inverloch, australia.
terakhir dia tinggal di sri lanka, dan pada desember 2004 dia berhasil selamat dari gempa bumi samudra hindia 2004.
daftar tak lengkap karya-karya fiksinya sesuai urutan penerbitan:
prelude to space (1951)
the sands of mars (1951)
islands in the sky (1952)
against the fall of night (1953)
childhood's end (1953)
expedition to earth (1953) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
reach for tomorrow (1956) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
the city and the stars (1956)
tales from the white hart (1957) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
the deep range (1957)
the other side of the sky (1958) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
across the sea of stars (1959) [childhood's end + earthlight + 18 cerita pendek
a fall of moondust (1961)
from the ocean, from the stars (1962) [the city and the stars + the deep range + the other side of the sky]
tales of ten worlds (1962) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
dolphin island (1963)
glide path (1963)
an arthur c. clarke omnibus (1965) [childhood's end + prelude to space + expedition to earth]
prelude to mars (1965) [prelude to space + the sands of mars]
the nine billion names of god (1967) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
2001: a space odyssey (1968)
an arthur c. clarke second omnibus (1968) [a fall of moondust + earthlight + the sands of mars]
the lion of comarre &
against the fall of night (1968)
of time and stars (1972) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
the wind from the sun (1972) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
rendezvous with rama (1973)
the best of arthur c. clarke (1973) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
imperial earth (1975)
four great sf novels (1978) [the city and the stars + the deep range + a fall of moondust + rendezvous with rama]
the fountains of paradise (1979), dimana ia mendeskripsikan lift luar angkasa
2010: odyssey two (1982)
the sentinel (1983) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
the songs of distant earth (1986)
2061: odyssey three (1988)
a meeting with medusa (1988)
cradle (1988) (dikarang bersama gentry lee)
rama ii (1989) (dikarang bersama gentry lee)
beyond the fall of night (1990) (dikarang bersama gregory benford)
tales from planet earth (1990) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
the ghost from the grand banks (1990)
more than one universe (1991) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
the garden of rama (1991) (dikarang bersama gentry lee)
rama revealed (1993) (dikarang bersama gentry lee)
the hammer of god (1993)
richter 10 (1996) (dikarang bersama mike mcquay)
3001: the final odyssey (1997)
the trigger (1999) (dikarang bersama michael p. kube-mcdowell)
the light of other days (2000) (dikarang bersama stephen baxter)
the collected stories of arthur c. clarke (2000) [kumpulan cerita pendek]
time's eye (2004) (dikarang bersama stephen baxter)
sunstorm (2005) (dikarang bersama stephen baxter)
clarke juga telah menulis dua buah otobiografi, ascent to orbit dan astounding days.
kategori:tanggal kelahiran 16 desember
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