The series is set several thousand years in the future, in a society with advanced nanotechnology, teleportation, and other technologies which effectively are magical in the sense of Clarke's law made real, all controlled and coordinated by an Artificial Intelligence called Mother.

Clarke's worldwide breakthrough came in 2000 when he won his first World Golf Championship event defeating Tiger Woods in the final 4 & 3 at the 2000 WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship at La Costa Resort and Spa.

Matches between Wisden's team and Clarke's quickly became the highlight of the cricketing year.

Arthur C. Clarke's novel Rendezvous with Rama opens with a significant asteroid impact in northern Italy in the year 2077 which gives rise to the Spaceguard Project, which later discovers the Rama spacecraft.

This happened often during the 1980s when Roy Clarke's commitment to Open All Hours prevented the production of a full series every year.

Arundel and longtime bassist McClanahan quite the band, leading in short order to Clarke's decision to retire the band later that year.

In Clarke's final year at Edinburgh, he completed his " final year project ", entitled " A Distributed, Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval System ".

They were married in a Nashville hotel on December 30, 1857 and after living for a year with Mosby's parents, the couple settled in Bristol, Virginia which was close to Clarke's hometown in Kentucky.

" Their predictions were the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke's character HAL 9000, who accurately embodied what AI researchers believed they could create by the year 2001.

Melton recounts that " vocationally, the most influential force in my life was the writings of a man I never met but who became my hero, Elmer Talmage Clark ... while my contemporaries became enthused with UFO's, Elvis Presley, or Alabama football, during my last year in high school one of Clarke's books, The Small Sects in America, captured my imagination.

Clarke's poor form during the 2005 Ashes series and his failure to score a test century for over a year saw him dropped from the Test team in late 2005.

A " gold bug " in 1896, Clarke's opposition to William Jennings Bryan's nomination as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate was so great that he bolted the party and participated in the subsequent " Gold Bug " convention in Indianapolis that nominated Senator John M. Palmer later that year.

In 1819 entered a poem for the Chancellor's Gold Medal ; this was awarded to Macaulay, but Clarke's poem Pompeii, published in the same year, was judged second.

Clarke's fine year continued when he placed tied second in the Volvo PGA Championship and followed it up the week after with his seventh European Tour win at the Compass Group English Open ahead of Michael Campbell and Mark James.

With hindsight Stephen Clarke's A year in the Merde has been a trail-blazing forerunner of a new " fish-out-of-the-water " genre.

The Public Enemy, released that same year, contained one of cinema's most famous ( and frequently parodied ) scenes, in which James Cagney pushes a half grapefruit into Clarke's face, then goes out to pick up Jean Harlow.

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

The first of the three laws, previously termed Clarke's Law, was proposed by Arthur C. Clarke in the essay " Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination ", in Profiles of the Future ( 1962 ).

The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay ; its status as Clarke's Second Law was conferred on it by others.

According to CiteSeer, Ian Clarke's " Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System " was the most cited computer science paper of 2000.

His parents were unable to afford Eton or Harrow, so in the summer of 1803 he was sent to board at John Clarke's school in Enfield, close to his grandparents ' house.

That autumn, Keats left Clarke's school to apprentice with Thomas Hammond, a surgeon and apothecary who was a neighbour and the doctor of the Jennings family.

" 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.

Grace recorded in his Reminiscences that he saw his first great cricket match in 1854 when he was barely six years old, the occasion being a game between William Clarke's All-England Eleven ( the AEE ) and twenty-two of West Gloucestershire.

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

* The subject was also featured on an episode of Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World entitled " Strange Skies ", originally broadcast on November 18, 1980.

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

Clarke's portrayal of the Overlords as devils was influenced by John W. Campbell's depiction of the devilish Teff-Hellani species in The Mightiest Machine, first serialized in Astounding Stories in 1934.

At the request of Clarke's agent ( and unbeknownst to Clarke ) the story was edited by James Blish who rewrote the ending.

Clarke's original version of " Guardian Angel " was later published in the Winter 1950 issue of New Worlds magazine.

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

" 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.

" P. Schuyler Miller characterized the novel as " all imagination and poetry ," but concluded it was " not up to some of Clarke's other writing " due to weakness in its " episodic structure.

Clarke's efforts earned him his second Hart Trophy and Parent was the lone recipient of the Vezina Trophy.

Based on Clarke's novel The Moonbather, the play was first performed by the Scunthorpe Little Theatre Club from 7 October to 11 October 2003.

Some, such as film critic Ben Mankiewicz, have asserted that Mae Clarke's surprised and seemingly somewhat angry reaction to the grapefruit was genuine, as she hadn't been told to expect the unscripted action.

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

Clarke's success was such that Brown felt he had to pledge to keep to Clarke's spending plans in January 1997, ahead of the election which was due to be held in May 1997 because the Labour Party considered its economic credibility to be its biggest electoral weakness.

This in turn inspired Clarke's 1993 novel The Hammer of God.

His final budget in 1993 was more sympathetically received by financial specialists than John Major's 1990 budget or Kenneth Clarke's budget of November 1993.

* Oz Clarke's Pocket Wine Book ( annually since 1993 ) Pavilion Books ( 2007 – present ) 2011 edition: ISBN 978-1-86205-895-8