Three of these are commonly ranked in the Top Twenty of all SF stories ever written: “The 9 Billion Names of God,” “The Star,” and “The Sentinel.” None of them really belongs in the top One Thousand, in my opinion. Clarke, dust jacket of first edition, 1972 ()Ĭlarke wrote quite a few short stories – I have here on my desk his Collected Stories, a heavy paperback, 980 pages long, with 104 stories. The motif is an alien artifact, a favorite theme for Clarke, who liked to examine how humanity would react in the face of something that clearly wasn't from around here. Kubrick liked a short story "The Sentinel," that Clarke had published in 1950, and 2001 grew from that seed, although comparing "The Sentinel" and 2001 is rather like comparing a three-bar motif and a symphony. Kubrick wrote Clarke a letter in 1964 ( second image) in which he expressed interest in collaborating on a science fiction film, and the two met in New York City. To the more general public, Clarke is recognized for providing the inspiration and much of the content for Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
To older science fiction readers, Clarke is one of the big three of mid-20th-century SF writers, along with Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, and his 1953 novel, Childhood's End, is one of the milestone novels of science fiction. Clarke, an English science fiction writer, was born Dec.
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