Speaking about Arthur C. Clarke's "The Songs of Distant Earth", Mikke Oldfield's similarly titled album might be loosely based on the novel but it still hits rather hard after you have read the book.
A wonderful duet that stays with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRivMEEZZE8
Here is my #review of #ChildhoodsEnd by #ArthurCClarke. An absolutely thought-provoking piece of science fiction that despite it all, holds up surprisingly well today. So glad I gave it a chance!
I just realized that January 2 was National Science Fiction Day. Here is Chris Moore’s cover art (1986) for Arthur C. Clarke’s wonderful short story “The Sentinel” (published in 1951). #nationalsciencefictionday#sciencefiction#scifi#arthurcclarke
Happy Birthday to Sir Arthur C. Clarke (Dec 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008), eminent science fiction writer, science writer, futurist and inventor.
Here is a table from his 1962 book — "Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible" - of his science and technology predictions from 1970 to 2100.
Did he overestimate our skill or will level to reach these objectives?
Who among us has not seen ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ brilliantly directed by Stanley Kubrick?
Here is a pic of Arthur C. Clarke beneath a sign advertising the film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” on May 16, 1968. The location is probably near the Uptown theater in Washington D.C., where the film premiered on April 2, 1968.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.
Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Science fiction and cinematic genius.
Here is the original trailer from 1968.
This was before the Apollo moon landing, before the Voyager missions to Jupiter and beyond, before modern computers and AI, before many of us were born.
I'm just gonna start saying publicly that Morgan Freeman should get the frag off his duff and make Rendezvous With Rama before it's just an item on his goddam uncompleted bucket list.
9/20/23 Open 6-9p. No open food/drink containers, please.
This book is a beater but still a treasure. That's the way it goes, sometimes. I may keep it. Sci-fi by authors you might not expect, plus known entities of the genre and then some!
Un pont entre la Terre et les étoiles : les fontaines du paradis est un mode d'emploi pour construire un ascenseur spatial de plusieurs milliers de km.
Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust (1961), the closest he came to writing a sci-fi thriller. And it's a pretty decent one. The dust cruiser Selene takes tourists on jaunts across the the largest of the lunar dust seas, the Sea of Thirst.
The annual award is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year....
The shortlist for the 37th Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year has been announced, and it includes authors that have never made the shortlist before.
The annual award is presented for the best science fiction novel of the year, and selected from a list of novels whose UK first edition was published in the previous calendar year....