Next to H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke was the widest-known English writer of science fiction of the 20th century. Like Wells, he was also a voluminous author of non-fiction; both men were great ...

I was once a teen from Texas, living in southern India during the early 1970s (my father had been dispatched abroad in the petrochemical-employment diaspora). That was how, as a science ...

It's the 50th birthday of a film that was supposed to be — and definitely is — "the proverbial 'really good' science fiction movie," and Michael Benson's exhaustive new book about the making of 2001: ...

When he started writing the script for his Academy Award-winning sci-fi masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey," Sir Arthur C. Clarke believed that the first year of the new century would see mankind ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Leaning forward in his wheelchair, the 83-year-old man speaks deadpan into the tape recorder: “Testing one, two, three. Testing. This is not Arthur Clarke, this is his clone.” As ...

Arthur C. Clarke, who peered into the heavens with a homemade telescope as a boy and grew up to become a visionary titan of science-fiction writing and collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on ...

One of my all-time favorite movies is Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. At several points during the film, we see ill-fated astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole using a flat, iPad-like ...