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 ).

While all of these prose writings are of interest, Clarke's reputation rests firmly on his poetry.

Near impacts have been depicted in Jules Verne's Off on a Comet and Tove Jansson's Comet in Moominland, while a large manned space expedition visits Halley's Comet in Sir Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three.

In the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey a group of primitive hominids, prior to their discovery of tools, live in fear of a large predatory cat ( portrayed by an actual jaguar ) which likely would have been a Dinofelis, although in Arthur C. Clarke's novel, the cat is referred to throughout as a " leopard ".

In 2005, the historian Frances Henderson published a new selection of Clarke's working papers taken from the large collection of his writings in shorthand.

He also became interested in the phenomenon of ball lightning, probably because of the connection between plasmas and their role in fusion power schemes, and in 1980 he appeared in the Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World episode ' Clarke's Cabinet of Curiosities ' where he described his experiments at Los Alamos, carried out during lunch breaks, to create ball lightning using a large storage battery of the type then used in submarines.

Fox corroborates Capote to a large extent and claimed to have seen all four of the Esquire chapters in 1975, but Gerald Clarke's biography indicates that only the recently-written " Mojave " and " La Cote Basque " were in any sort of publishable condition by that date.

Clarke's christological view was rejected in large part by Methodist theologians in favor of the traditional perspective.

He had been commissioned by some of his English colleagues to ascertain the extent and character of the carboniferous formation in New South Wales ( Clarke's letter to Sydney Morning Herald, 18 February 1852 ).

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.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

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 ".

Whilst a laser on a weather-control satellite is able to supply heat, it is imperative to provide them with filter masks against the increasing carbon dioxide and also with food, air, and medical supplies ( a theme earlier explored in Clarke's novel The Sands of Mars ).

Don takes the money he swindled to Nat's Bar on Third Avenue, based on the legendary P. J. Clarke's, and gets drunk, missing the train he is meant to catch.

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

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

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.

Assistant coach John Stevens replaced Hitchcock and assistant general manager Paul Holmgren took on Clarke's responsibilities on an interim basis.

Those aspirations are remembered in science fiction such as Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust and 2001: A Space Odyssey, Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Joanna Russ's 1968 novel Picnic on Paradise, and Larry Niven's Known Space stories.

* Fred Dagg on John Clarke's official website

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.

In May 2011, controversy related to Clarke's reported views on rape resurfaced after an interview on the radio station BBC 5 Live, where he discussed a proposal to shrink the sentences of criminals, including rapists, who pleaded guilty in trial.

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.

United Australia Party challenger Frederick Lee appeared to have won the seat on the second count after most of independent Guildford Clarke's preferences flowed to him, and it was not until final counting of preferential votes that Curtin knew he had won the seat.

Clarke's ethical theory of " fitness " is formulated on the analogy of mathematics.

Clarke had an influence on Enlightenment philosophers including Lord Monboddo, who referred often to Clarke's writings.

Newman S. Clarke's brigade brought new momentum to the fight on Pillow's front.

For example, P. Schuyler Miller called Arthur C. Clarke's 1961 novel A Fall of Moondust hard SF, and the designation remains valid even though a crucial plot element, the existence of deep pockets of " moondust " in lunar craters, is now known to be incorrect.

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

* The Nine Billion Names of God ( readings from Arthur C. Clarke's short story collection of the same name )

* James Randi praising The Nine Billion Names of God as his favourite Clarke story Audio interview the day after Clarke's death.

In 2001, Billy Connolly starred in a film based on Clarke's screenplay The Man Who Sued God ( re-written by Don Watson ).

* The name of an asteroid in Arthur C. Clarke's novel The Hammer of God

Many of Clarke's earlier published writings were addressed to the immediate need of establishing a larger theory of religion than that espoused by people who were still under the influence Calvinism, or as an American phrase states the " Hard-shelled Churches.

In Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ), though written after the present flood of dystopias began, we can see the bright vision of science fiction clearly defined.

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 character of Absalom appears in Susannah Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.

He asked her to have dinner with him that night at P. J. Clarke's.

Clarke's in New York.

Clarke's Three Laws are three " laws " of prediction formulated by the British writer Arthur C. Clarke.

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 ).

Clarke's Third Law codifies perhaps the most significant of Clarke's unique contributions to speculative fiction.

The first few years of Clarke's professional career were largely theatrical, apart from her role in Dragonslayer.

In Arthur C. Clarke's short story " Technical Error " there is an example of differing chirality.