Born on this day – Arthur C. Clarke:

Arthur C. Clarke

Writer

Inventor

Undersea explorer

Television series host

December 16, 1917 – March 19, 2008

Credits:

Books:

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2010: Odyssey Two (1982); 2061: Odyssey Three (1987); 3001: The Final Odyssey (1997); 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1963); A Fall of Moondust (1961); A Meeting With Medusa (1988); Against the Fall of Night (1948); Aliens: 3 Novellas (1977); Alpha 3 (1972); Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century (1986); Astounding Days (1990); Bangs & Whimpers: Stories about The End of The World (1999); Battlefields Beyond Tomorrow (1987); Beyond the Fall of Night (1990); Boy Beneath the Sea (1958); Bright Messengers (1995); Bug-Eyed Monsters & Bimbos (2011); Childhood's End (1953); City and the Stars (1956); Cradle (1987); Dolphin Island (1963); Double Full Moon Night (1999); Drabble II: Double Century (1990); Earthlight (1955); Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology (2006); Expedition to Earth (1968); Firstborn (2007); Fourth Planet from the Sun (1984); From Narnia To Space Odyssey (2003); From the Pen of Paul: The Fantastic Images of Frank R. Paul (2009); Futures Unlimited (1969); Galaxy Science Fiction - October 1973 (1973); Galaxy Science Fiction, September 1958 (1958); Galileo's Children (2005); Glide Path (1963); Grave Predictions (2016); Great Science Fiction Stories by the World's Greatest Scientists (1985); Great Tales of Action and Adventure (1958); Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! (1999); How the World Was One (1992); Imperial Earth (1975); In Space No One Can Hear You Scream (2013); Infinite Stars (2019); Interplanetary Flight (1950); Into Space (1971); Isaac Asimov's Aliens (1991); Isaac Asimov's Camelot (1998); Isaac Asimov's Christmas (1997); Isaac Asimov's Cyberdreams (1994); Isaac Asimov's Detectives (1998); Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (1985); Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! (1989); Isaac Asimov's Father Day (2001); Isaac Asimov's Ghosts (1995); Isaac Asimov's Halloween (2001); Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (1981); Isaac Asimov's Robots (1991); Isaac Asimov's SF-Lite (1993); Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep (1995); Isaac Asimov's Solar System (1999); Isaac Asimov's Space of Her Own (1983); Isaac Asimov's Utopias (2000); Isaac Asimov's War (1993); Isaac Asimov's Werewolves (1999); Isaac Asimov's Worlds of Science Fiction (1980); Islands in the Sky (1952); Man And Space (1964); 1984: Spring - A Choice of Futures (1984); Novelets of Science Fiction (1963); Of Time and Stars (1972); Other Dimensions (1974); Prelude to Space (1950); Profiles of the Future (1962); Rama II (1989); Rama Revealed (1993); Reach for Tomorrow (1956); Rendezvous with Rama (1973); Richter 10 (1996); Science Fiction A to Z (1982); Science Fiction Stories (1988); Space Odyssey (1983); Star Science Fiction Stories 3 (1955); Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953); Sunstorm (2005); Tales From The White Hart (1957); Tales of Ten Worlds (1962); Tales of Time and Space (1969); The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels (1980); The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980); The Baen Big Book of Monsters (2014); The Bedside Playboy (1963); The Best of British SF 1 (1977); The Best of British SF 2 (1977); The Body (1964); The Coast of the Coral (1956); The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals (2004); The Deep Range (1957); The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse (2010); The Exploration of Space (1951); The Exploration of the Moon (2020); The Fountains of Paradise (1979); The Futurists (1972); The Garden of Rama (1991); The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990); The Hammer of God (1993); The Hard SF Renaissance (2003); The Last Theorem (2008); The Light of Other Days (2000); The Lion Of Comarre (1968); The Lost Worlds Of 2001 (1971); The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF (2009); The Nine Billion Names of God (1967); The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack (2014); The Promise of Space (1968); The Reefs of Taprobane (1956); The Sands of Mars (1951); The Sentinel (1951); The Sixth Science Fiction Megapack (2013); The Songs of Distant Earth (1986); The Tranquility Wars (2000); The Treasure of the Great Reef (1964); The Trigger (1999); The Ultimate Alien (1995); The View from Serendip (1977); The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010); The Wind From The Sun (1972); The World Turned Upside Down (2005); The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection (1993); The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1999); They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1979); Time's Eye (2003); Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... (1974); Voice Across The Sea (1958); Voices from the Sky (1966); Worlds to Come: New Science Fiction Adventures (1967).

Movies, television, video games and audio plays:

2001 and Beyond (2001); 2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future (1966); 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); 2001: HAL's Legacy (2001); 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2016); 2001: The Making of a Myth (2001); 2010: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2017); 2010: The Odyssey Continues (1984); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984); 2061: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2021); 3001: Odyseja kosmiczna (Audioplay) (2021); 50 Terrible Predictions (2005); 50th Anniversary Brunch Noreascon Three Videotape (1989); A Failed Recluse (1993); Adventure (1964); Adventure (1964); Arthur C. Clarke: Before 2001 (1993); Arthur C. Clarke: Before 2001 (1993); Arthur C. Clarke: The Man Who Saw the Future (1997); Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World (1980); Baddegama (1980); Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon (1993); Breaking Strain (2019); Camera Three (1970–1972); Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949); Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949); Childhood's End (2015); Cold Fusion: Fire from Water (1998); Contact: The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (1995); Esther (1996); Future Fantastic (1996); God, the Universe and Everything Else (1988); Jännitysnäytelmä (1968); La Estrella (2020); Letadlo (2001); L'odyssée de la survie (1999); Masters of Fantasy (1997); Mysterious Universe (1994); Nova (1978); Odyssey of Survival (1999); People to Watch (1966); Phenomenon: The Lost Archives (1998); Planetary Defense (2007); Rama (1997); Rama (1997); Rendezvous with Rama (2003); Sci-Fi Entertainment (1998); Sightings / The Sci-Fi Prophet (1996); Siskel & Ebert (1997); Stanley Kubrick in Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001); Stanley Kubrick: The Invisible Man (1996); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Television (1985); Television (1988); The 73rd Annual Academy Awards (2001); The City in the Image of Man: Ideas and Work of Paolo Soleri (1972); The Colours of Infinity (1995); The Colours of Infinity (1995); The David Frost Show (1969–1972); The Day of Five Billion (1987); The Dick Cavett Show (1972); The High Frontier: The Untold Story of Gerard K. O'Neill (2021); The Martians and Us (2006); The Sky at Night (1963–2003); The Twilight Zone (1985); The Unexplained (1970); The Works (1997); This Is Your Life (1995); Time Out of Mind (1979); To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion (2003); Trapped in Space / Breaking Strain (1994); Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007); We Love 'The Sky at Night' (2007); Without Warning (1994); Wogan (1985); World of Strange Powers (1985).