The authenticity of this work has been hotly disputed, especially by Dr Francis Clarke in his two volume work The Pseudo-Gregorian Dialogues.

* Linda Nagy, aka Ellen Troy, who has wetware in her brain, spines in her fingers ( for linking with computers ) and an antenna that lets her shut down machine remotely from the Venus Prime series by Arthur C. Clarke and Paul Preuss

Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

Although it is often conjectured that the name HAL was based on a one-letter shift from the name IBM, this has been denied by both Clarke and 2001 director Stanley Kubrick.

It has been alleged but remains unconfirmed that later in life, Booth became a Roman Catholic, possibly converted by his sister, Asia Booth Clarke, who however died in the Protestant Episcopal faith and was buried in an Episcopal ceremony.

London Underground voiceover artiste Emma Clarke has recorded a number of spoof announcements, available on her personal website.

In the SETI context, the name has been used for radio telescopes in fiction ( Arthur C. Clarke, " Imperial Earth "; Carl Sagan, " Contact "), was the name initially used for the NASA study ultimately known as " Cyclops ," and is the name given to an omnidirectional radio telescope design being developed at the Ohio State University.

The story is set in the fictional equatorial island country of Taprobane, which Clarke has described as " about ninety percent congruent with the island of Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka )", south of its real world location.

F. W. Clarke has calculated that a little more than 47 % of the Earth's crust consists of oxygen.

Clarke has calculated the relative abundance of the principal rock-forming minerals with the following results: apatite = 0. 6, titanium minerals = 1. 5, quartz = 12. 0, feldspars = 59. 5, biotite = 3. 8, hornblende and pyroxene = 16. 8, total = 94. 2 %.

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

The hotel has been a home to actors and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mekas ( was long-time resident from 1967 to 1974 ), Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Gallo, Patricia Chica, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Gaby Hoffmann and her mother, the Warhol film star Viva, and Edie Sedgwick.

Clarke Ingram, who maintains a memorial website to the failed DuMont Television Network, has suggested that Fox is a revival or at least a linear descendant of DuMont, since Metromedia was spun off from DuMont and Metromedia's television stations formed the nucleus of the Fox network.

Indiana travels to Mozambique to aid Dr. Clare Clarke ( a Katharine Hepburn type, according to Lucas ) who has found a 200-year-old pygmy.

* Science fiction novel Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter has some of its lead characters from the year 2037.

She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award seven times, winning twice.

" Guardian Angel " has also appeared in two short story collections: The Sentinel ( 1983 ), and The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001 ).

In Australia Clarke has gone on to establish himself as a top script writer and personality.

Clarke has stated that the inspiration for Fred Dagg came primarily from his uncles who would talk in such a way, using intonation and speech rhythm, to cause laughter without the standard telling of jokes.

Alan J. W. Bell responded that Radio Times has always been anti-Last of the Summer Wine, and Roy Clarke remarked that people who dislike the show " shouldn't switch it on " unless they are " too idle to turn it off ".

( One exception is Phyllis Boyle, who has allied herself with the TransNats ; she is on Clarke when the space elevator cable is cut and sent flying out of orbit to a fate unknown by the conclusion of the book.

Her influence is strongest during the later events of Red Mars, where by the 2061 revolution she has been placed in charge of the asteroid Clarke that serves as the counterweight of the First Space Elevator.

In a much more detailed account, Edward Daniel Clarke stated that a French " officer and member of the Institute " had taken him, his student John Cripps, and Hamilton secretly into the back streets behind Menou's residence and revealed the stone hidden under protective carpets among Menou's baggage.

However, in her autobiography, Clarke stated that Cagney had told her prior to that take what he planned to do.

Caitlin Clarke, who worked with Richardson in Dragonslayer, stated on interview that he had taught her more on acting than any acting class.

Vince Clarke has stated in radio interviews that the band want to complete the concept album of nursery rhymes that they have been working on for some time.

Bodine's career was marked by controversy surrounding Bodine's relationship with the FBI during its investigation of the USS Cole bombing: The PBS Frontline documentary The Man Who Knew included interviews with officials such as Richard A. Clarke ( the Clinton administration's counterterrorism chief ) and Barry Mawn ( a former head of the New York FBI office ) who stated that John P. O ' Neill ( an FBI agent and al-Qaeda expert ) came into a personal conflict with Bodine over different perspectives on Yemen.

Clarke himself has stated that he did not enjoy the direction in which the band was going.

Clarke also stated that he didn't enjoy the public aspects of success, such as touring and interviews, and found himself frequently at odds with his bandmates, particularly on the tour bus.

He views “ Africadian ” literature as “ literal and liberal — I canonize songs and sonnets, histories and homilies .” Clarke has stated that he found further writing inspiration in the 1970s and his “ individualist poetic scored with implicit social commentary ” came from the ‘ Gang of Seven ’ intellectuals, “ poet-politicos: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, troubadour-bard Bob Dylan, libertine lyricist Irving Layton, guerrilla leader and poet Mao Zedong, reactionary modernist Ezra Pound, Black Power orator Malcolm X and the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau .” Though flawed, Clarke found “ as a whole, the group ’ s blunt talk, suave styles, acerbic independence, raunchy macho, feisty lyricism, singing heroic and a scarf-and-beret chivalry quite, well, liberating .”

Charles Clarke, a former UK home secretary and the first senior " Blairite " to attack UK Prime Minister Brown openly and in print, stated " We should discard the techniques of ' triangulation ' and ' dividing lines ' with the Conservatives, which lead to the not entirely unjustified charge that we simply follow proposals from the Conservatives or the right-wing media, to minimise differences and remove lines of attack against us.

In endorsing Clarke, Rifkind stated that he was " head and shoulders " above the other candidates, and had both the experience and popular appeal to take on Labour.

Clarke stated that the Time Odyssey novels are an " orthoquel " to the Space Odyssey series.

In August 2008, Clarke stated that he would stand against Labour as an independent at the next Parliamentary Election for Northampton South Constituency and did so on 6 May 2010.

In 2004 Roenick came under investigation after paying a Florida sports-gambling operation between $ 50, 000 and $ 100, 000 for betting tips and services, however at the time the NHL did not prohibit players from betting on sports, other than hockey, and Roenick stated that he stopped gambling after a warning from Flyers GM Bobby Clarke.

Then United States National Security Council advisor Richard Clarke stated that intelligence existed linking Osama bin Laden to Al-Shifa's current and past operators, namely the Iraqi nerve gas experts and the National Islamic Front in Sudan.

However, Clarke consistently stated that each of the Odyssey novels takes place in its own separate parallel universe — this is demonstrated by the facts that the monoliths are still in existence at the end of 2010: Odyssey Two and that Floyd is no longer part of the trinity formed at the end of 2061: Odyssey Three.

In the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke stated that both Frank Poole and Dave Bowman had earned their doctorates in astronautics, and hence they were properly addressed as " Dr. Poole " and " Dr.

At a July 5, 2001, White House gathering of the FAA, the Coast Guard, the FBI, Secret Service and INS, Clarke stated that " something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon.

Scheuer stated that his unit, codename ' Alec ,' had provided information that could have led to the capture and or killing of Osama bin Laden on ten different occasions, only to have his recommendations for action turned down by senior intelligence officials, including Clarke.

In that briefing on behalf of the White House, Clarke stated " there was no plan on Al-Qaeda that was passed from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration ," and that after taking office President Bush decided to " add to the existing Clinton strategy and to increase CIA resources, for example, for covert action, fivefold, to go after Al-Qaeda.

Writer Roy Clarke stated in an interview for the BBC series Comedy Connections that " to live with it must be murder, but to watch it is funny.

Prior to the launch of the NAA, Charles Clarke, the then Secretary of State for Education and Skills stated that the separation of these two roles, made possible by the creation of the new agency, would decrease what was regarded by the government as conflicting responsibilities.

" Mills has stated that he tried to be relaxed during his final kick to the finish line and felt that helped him to pass both Gammoudi and Clarke.