Arthur C Clarke 2001 Space Odyssey Author Signed 8\"x10\" Photo With Ray Bradbury
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Arthur C Clarke 2001 Space Odyssey Author Signed 8\"x10\" Photo With Ray Bradbury:
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This 8\"x10\" photo of Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury
is hand signed by Sir. Clark and is not a preprint.This signed photo was, among many other signed books,
photos and other precious memorabilia a gift to me in 2012
by Sir Arthur C. Clarke\'s (and my own)
good personal friend David Dimario.Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain Mr. Ray Bradbury\'s own signature
upon this photo prior to his demise on June 5th of that same year.Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Biography:
Widely considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time, Arthur C. Clarke turned his formidable technical knowledge and lively creative imagination into an amazing career that spanned the fields of literature, invention, futurology, and entertainment.
Born in 1917 in the seaside town of Minehad in Somerset, England, Clarke developed an early interest in both science and its literary sister, speculative science fiction. After secondary school he moved to London and joined the British Interplanetary Society, where he contributed articles to the Society\'s bulletin.
During WWII, he joined the RAF, working in the experimental trials of Ground Controlled Approach Radar, the forerunner of today\'s air traffic control systems. (This experience inspired his only non-science fiction novel, 1963\'s Glide Path.)
In a technical paper written in 1945 for the UK periodical Wireless World, he set out the principles of satellite communication that would lead to the global satellite systems in use today.After WWII, he attended King\'s College, London, on scholarship and received first class honors in Physics and Mathematics.
He sold his first sci-fi story to Astounding Science Fiction magazine in May of 1946. From that point on, he never stopped writing. Some of his more notable works include Childhood\'s End, Rendezvous with Rama, and The Fountains of Paradise.
In 1964, Clarke was approached by film auteur Stanley Kubrick to collaborate on a science fiction movie script. The material chosen for adaptation was Clarke\'s 1948 short story \"The Sentinel,\" an eerie tale about the discovery of an extraterrestrial artifact. Over the next four years, he expanded the story into a full-length novel, while simultaneously writing the screenplay with Kubrick. In 1968, both versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey debuted to great acclaim.
Clarke also worked in television -- as a consultant during the CBS news coverage of the Apollo 12 and 15 space missions and as creator of two distinguished series, \"Arthur C. Clarke\'s Mysterious World\" and \"Arthur C. Clarke\'s World of Strange Powers.\"
In 1954, Clarke visited Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon). He fell in love with the country and settled there in 1956, founding a guided diving service and continuing to produce his astonishing books and articles. On March 19, 2008, he died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90, leaving behind an impressive literary legacy and millions of bereft fans.
Good To Know:
Clarke shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Clarke was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998.
In 1986, the Science Fiction Writers of America bestowed on Clarke the title of Grand Master.
Clarke was an expert scuba diver and in 1956 founded a guided diving service in Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon.Clarke also wrote a number of non-fiction books describing the technical details and societal implications of rocketry and space flight. The most notable of these may be The Exploration of Space (1951) and The Promise of Space (1968). In recognition of these contributions the geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometres (22,000 mi) above the equator is officially recognised by the International Astronomical Union as a Clarke Orbit.[25]
In Profiles of the Future (1962), Clarke set forth his \"Three Laws,\" provocative observations on science, science fiction, and society:\"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.\"\"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.\"\"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\"
Ray Bradbury
“I don\'t need to be vindicated, and I don\'t want attention.
I never question.
I never ask anyone else\'s opinion.
They don\'t count.” —Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury was an American fantasy and horror author who rejected being categorized as a science fiction author, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. His best known novel is Fahrenheit 451, a dystopian study of future American society in which critical thought is outlawed. He is also remembered for several other popular works, including The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury won the Pulitzer in 2004, and is one of the most celebrated authors of the 21st century. He died in Los Angeles on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91.
Author Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a lineman for power and telephone utilities, and Ester Moberg Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant. Bradbury enjoyed a relatively idyllic childhood in Waukegan, which he later incorporated into several semi-autobiographical novels and short stories. As a child, he was a huge fan of magicians, and a voracious reader of adventure and fantasy fiction—especially L. Frank Baum, Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs.Bradbury decided to become a writer at about age 12 or 13. He later said that he made the decision in hopes of emulating his heroes, and to \"live forever\" through his fiction.
Bradbury\'s family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1934. As a teenager, he participated in his school\'s drama club and occasionally befriended Hollywood celebrities. His first official pay as a writer came for contributing a joke to George Burns\'s Burns & Allen Show. After graduation from high school in 1938, Bradbury couldn\'t afford to go to college, so he went to the local library instead. \"Libraries raised me,\" he later said. \"I believe in libraries because most students don\'t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression, and we had no money. I couldn\'t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.\"
To support himself while he wrote, Bradbury sold newspapers. He published his first short story in a fan magazine in 1938, the same year he graduated from high school. The next year, he published four issues of his own fan magazine, Futuria Fantasia. Nearly every piece in the magazine was written by Bradbury himself; he used a variety of pseudonyms to try to hide the fact that the magazine was a virtual one-man show. \"I was still years away from writing my first good short story,\" he later said, \"but I could see my future. I knew where I wanted to go.\"Bradbury sold his first professional piece, the story \"Pendulum,\" in November 1941, just a month before the United States entered World War II, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ruled ineligible for military service by his local draft board because of his vision problems, Bradbury became a full-time writer by early 1943. His first collection of short stories, Dark Carnival, was published in 1947.
That same year, he married Marguerite \"Maggie\" McClure, whom he met while she was working as a clerk at a bookstore. McClure was the breadwinner in the early days of their marriage, supporting Bradbury as he worked on his writing for little to no pay. The couple had four daughters, Susan (1949), Ramona (1951), Bettina (1955) and Alexandra (1958).
In 1950, Bradbury published his first major work, The Martian Chronicles, which detailed the conflict between humans colonizing the red planet and the native Martians they encountered there. While taken by many to be a work of science fiction, Bradbury himself considered it to be fantasy. \"I don\'t write science fiction,\" he said. \"Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal. So Martian Chronicles is not science fiction, it\'s fantasy. It couldn\'t happen, you see?\" Television and comic book adaptations of Bradbury\'s short stories began to appear in 1951, introducing him to a wider audience.
Bradbury\'s best-known work, Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, became an instant classic in the era of McCarthyism for its exploration of themes of censorship and conformity. In 2007, Bradbury himself disputed that censorship was the main theme of Fahrenheit 451, instead explaining the book as a story about how television drives away interest in reading: \"Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was.\"
Despite his apparent distaste for television, Bradbury advocated for film adaptations of his work. He wrote numerous screenplays and treatments, including a 1956 take on Moby Dick. In 1986, Bradbury developed his own HBO television series, allowing him to produce adaptations of his short stories. The series ran until 1992.
Famously prolific, Bradbury wrote for several hours every day throughout his entire life, allowing him to publish more than 30 books, close to 600 short stories, and numerous poems, essays, screenplays and plays.
Though Bradbury won many honors and awards throughout his life, his favorite was perhaps being named \"ideas consultant\" for the United States Pavilion at the 1964 World\'s Fair. \"Can you imagine how excited I was?\" he later said about the honor. \"\'Cause I\'m changing lives, and that\'s the thing. If you can build a good museum, if you can make a good film, if you can build a good world\'s fair, if you can build a good mall, you\'re changing the future. You\'re influencing people, so that they\'ll get up in the morning and say, \'Hey, it\'s worthwhile going to work.\' That\'s my function, and it should be the function of every science fiction writer around. To offer hope. To name the problem and then offer the solution. And I do, all the time.\"
Bradbury wrote well into his 90s, dictating for three hours at a time to one of his daughters, who would transcribe his words to the page. Though curtailing much of his traveling and public appearances, he granted several interviews in recent years and helped raise funds for his local library.In 2007, Bradbury received a special citation from the Pulitzer board for his \"distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career as an unmatched author of science fiction and fantasy.\" In his final years, Bradbury felt content about his place in the annals of science fiction history, having achieved his childhood ambition of living forever through his work. \"I don\'t need to be vindicated,\" he said, \"and I don\'t want attention. I never question. I never ask anyone else\'s opinion. They don\'t count.\"
Bradbury died in Los Angeles on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91. He was survived by daughters Susan, Ramona, Bettina and Alexandra, as well as several grandchildren. An inspiration to writers, teachers and science-fiction enthusiasts, among countless others, Bradbury\'s fascinating science-fiction works will be remembered for decades to come.
Arthur C Clarke 2001 Space Odyssey Author Signed 8\"x10\" Photo With Ray Bradbury:
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