Arthur Charles Clarke, Author, Gregory Benford, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-399-13499-9 One of Clarke's early novels, Against the Fall of Night , has long been ...

Clarke’s three laws, written by the British science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. Clarke, are his observations ... published in Clarke’s 1962 book, Profiles of the Future.

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The invention of the helicopter by Igor Sikorsky took shape in his mind while reading a book by Jules Verne. A science ...

British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) coined three laws dealing with prediction: two from his 1962 essay "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" and a third from ...

British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are ... It was initially a derivative of the first law and formally became Clarke's second law where the author proposed ...