When Annie Clarke's husband John dies from leukaemia at an early age, her close friend Chris Harper, anxious to purchase a comfortable sofa for the visitors lounge in the hospital where he was treated, hits upon the idea of printing a calendar featuring some of the members of the Knapely chapter of the Women's Institute discreetly posing nude while engaged in everyday activities, such as baking and knitting, in order to raise funds.

Contrary to Clarke's expectations, there was no latent undercurrent of support for joining the League, only skepticism and hostility to the idea.

Similarly, Arthur C. Clarke's " Crusade " revolves around a planetwide life-form based on silicon and superfluid helium located in deep intergalactic space, processing its thoughts slowly by human standards, that sends probes to look for similar life in nearby galaxies.

The original concept relied only on radiation from the Sun – for example in Arthur C. Clarke's 1965 story " Sunjammer ".

" Mackal and Powell were interviewed before and after this expedition for the TV program Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World.

Bush describes the memex and other visions of " As We May Think " as projections of technology known in the 1930s and 1940s in the spirit of Jules Verne or Arthur C. Clarke's 1945 proposal to orbit geosynchronous satellites for global telecommunication.

" Lethem suggests that the point in 1973 when Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was nominated for the Nebula Award, and was passed over in favor of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, stands as " a hidden tombstone marking the death of the hope that SF was about to merge with the mainstream.

Clarke's first whistle, the Meg, was pitched in high A and was later made in other keys suitable for Victorian parlour music.

Clarke's novel was nominated for the Retro Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2004.

" Don Guzman of the Los Angeles Times admired the novel for its suspense, wisdom, and beauty, and compared Clarke's role as a writer to that of an artist, " a master of sonorous language, a painter of pictures in futuristic colours, a Chesley Bonestell with words ".

" While praising Clarke's work as " Stapledonian its historic concepts and also for the quality of its prose and thinking ," they concluded that Childhood's End was " an awkward and imperfect book.

Months before his performance at Woodstock in 1969, folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens told Ebony magazine about his appreciation for Clarke's story and expressed his personal interest in working on a future film adaptation of Childhood's End.

* Any ghost ship, in the sense of a vessel found drifting without a crew, for example the Event Horizon from the film of that name, and the Rama from Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.

It contains a range of John Clarke's material, including most of the items Fred Dagg is most remembered for.

The game was also notable for Bobby Clarke's two-handed slash that broke Valeri Kharlamov's ankle.

Clarke's spending limits remained in place for the first two years of the Labour government that was elected in 1997.

Clarke's illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's " The Pit and the Pendulum ".

" They danced with shawls that were woven of mist and moonshine "-one of Clarke's illustrations for Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen ( 1916 ).

Hart-Davis's work in broadcasting began in 1977 when he joined Yorkshire Television ( YTV ) as a researcher, working on material for Magnus Pyke, David Bellamy, Miriam Stoppard as well as Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World.

The adaptation of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke's novel as 2001: A Space Odyssey won the Academy Award for Visual Effects and offered thematic complexity not typically associated with the science fiction genre at the time.

The new neighborhood thrived for three decades, with many single family homes and rowhouses, in the process expanding past the original boundaries of Clarke's estate, but an industrial zone also began to develop along the Hudson.

In 1976, satirist John Clarke's alter ego Fred Dagg reworked Connolly's song as " If It Weren't for your Gumboots ", and created a hit.

According to a family tradition, given by William Turner, on settling at Norwich he went through Samuel Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity ( 1712 ) with his congregation, adopted its view, and came forward ( 1737 ) in defence of a dissenting layman excommunicated for heterodoxy on this topic by James Sloss ( 1698 – 1772 ) of Nottingham, a pupil of John Simson.

He is perhaps best known for the novels in Arthur C. Clarke's Venus Prime series, which were written by Preuss based upon incidents, characters, and places from Clarke's short stories.

The book is often regarded as Clarke's best novel by both readers and critics, and is described as " a classic of alien literature ".

After Clarke's nonfiction science book The Exploration of Space ( 1951 ) was successfully received, he began to seriously focus on his writing career.

The latter of these made his reputation as a book illustrator ( this was during the golden age of gift-book illustration in the first quarter of the twentieth century: Clarke's work can be compared to that of Aubrey Beardsley, Kay Nielsen, and Edmund Dulac ).

* Lys is the name of a city in Arthur C. Clarke's book The City and the Stars.

It is the third book in Clarke's Space Odyssey series.

It is the fourth and final book in Clarke's Space Odyssey series.

* 1874: First book publication of Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life, set mainly in Tasmania

On March 22, 2004, Clarke's book, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror — What Really Happened ( ISBN 0-7432-6024-4 ), was published.

Operation Orient Express was, according to National Security Adviser Richard Clarke's book Against All Enemies, the unofficial title given to a successful pact in 1996 from within the Clinton administration to oust Boutros Boutros-Ghali from his position as United Nations Secretary-General.

Clarke's book is identified as distinctively English not only because of its style but also because of its themes of " vigorous common sense ", " firm ethical fiber ", " serene reason and self-confidence ", which are drawn from its Augustan literary roots.

Clarke's book Against All Enemies is also a crucial complement to the September 11 panel's failure to condemn Mr. Clinton's failure to capture or kill bin Laden on any of the eight to 10 chances afforded by CIA reporting.

According to Clarke's preface to the book, the book was his third collection of short stories, which were written between 1953 and 1957 in such diverse spots as New York, Miami, Colombo, London and Sydney.

This was referenced in Richard Clarke's book ' Against All Enemies '.

The missing ones are a movie outline of ' The Songs of Distant Earth ' ( from " The Sentinel "; this is " not " the short story of the same name ) and a short sketch titled ' When the Twerms Came ' which originally appeared in Clarke's non-fiction book " The View from Serendip " ( 1978 ) and was later reprinted in the 1987 edition of " The Wind from the Sun ".

' The Lion of Comarre ' ( 17 ), although published in magazine as early as 1949, first appeared in book form in 1968, in an omnibus edition together with Clarke's early novel " Against the Fall of the Night " ( 1953 ).

As one of the first detailed accounts of these decisions, prior to inside accounts like Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies, Woodward's book was widely acclaimed, getting praise from The Times and other major papers.

In the early 1930s, Clarke's face had been left scarred as a result of a car crash, recounts G. Mank in his Frankenstein film saga book It's Alive.

Clarke's most recent novel is THE WATER THEATRE ( published in September 2010 by Alma Booka ), of which a review by Antonia Senior in THE TIMES of 28 August said " There is nothing small about this book.