If you\’ve not read any of his stuff, leave aside the sci-fi and try out "Tales From The White Hart". A lovely collection of tall tales and shaggy dog stories.
If you\’ve not read any of his stuff, leave aside the sci-fi and try out "Tales From The White Hart". A lovely collection of tall tales and shaggy dog stories.
Did you know he invented MMORGs?
‘Tales from the White Hart’ showed Clarke to be the best kind of intellectual – forever name-checking his heroes.
Or if you want to know what makes him so important as more that a very good novelist try
“how I lost a billion dollars in my spare time”
For more insight into Clarke’s life read “Glide Path”, a lightly fictionalized memoir of his involvement in the development of the GCA aircraft landing system during WWII.
Less rounded as a writer than Asimov, some of the books tended to be repetitive. But I was introduced to sci-fi by Clarke. I spent a gripping Christmas Day reading 2001, consciously hoping that nobody would disturb me.
The film 2001 is on my shelf now, and I still watch it from time to time.
Tim,
Incidentally, if I were you I would re-read ‘The Man Who Ploughed The Sea’.
Might be helpful in the day job.