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 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.

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 ).

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 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.

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

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.

In the 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C. Clarke's first sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 is described by Dr. Chandra as being caught in a " Hofstadter – Möbius loop ".

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.

HAL 9000 is a character in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction Space Odyssey saga.

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.

* Bright Messengers ( 1995 ) by Gentry Lee a novel set in the Arthur C. Clarke's Rama universe.

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.

Pentominoes were featured in a prominent subplot of Arthur C. Clarke's novel Imperial Earth, published in 1975.

" 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.

* Thalassa, a fictional planet ( a waterworld ) in Arthur C. Clarke's novel Songs of Distant Earth

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

* The term is used, in fact Prime Directive is the title of a section, of Arthur C. Clarke's " A Meeting with Medusa ," which supposes that life, probably intelligent, has been discovered in the atmosphere of Jupiter.

* In Chapter 21 of Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey, a parallel is drawn between the prime directive and the monolith's forbiddance of human-Europan interaction.

* Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2061: Odyssey Three takes place.

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.

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.

In the novel Childhood's End ( 1953 ) by Arthur C. Clarke, all humans have a collective premonition, also described as a memory of the future, of horned aliens which arrive to usher in a new phase of human evolution.

The Sentinel ( published 1982 ) is also the title of a collection of Arthur C. Clarke short stories, including the eponymous " The Sentinel ", " Guardian Angel " ( the inspiration for his Childhood's End ), " The Songs of Distant Earth ", and " Breaking Strain ".

* Childhood's End ( 1954 ) by Arthur C. Clarke, alien beings guide humanity towards a more economically productive and technologically advanced society, allowing humans to broaden their mental capacities.

Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke.

Other examples of a beneficial alien invasion are Gene Roddenberry's The Questor Tapes movie and his 1968 Star Trek episode Assignment: Earth, Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, the anime and novel series Crest of the Stars and David Brin's Uplift series of books.

* Utopia in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, at Fantastic Metropolis

Arthur C Clarke's novel Childhood's End has the Overlords refer to Mankind's " apotheosis " when the world's children evolve into their union with the Overmind ( see also post-human ).

* An interstellar Hive Mind in the Arthur C. Clark novel Childhood's End

* In Childhood's End, a novel by Arthur C. Clarke published in 1953, the alien cultures had been observing and registering the Earth's evolution and human history for thousands ( perhaps millions ) of years.

Isaac Asimov's The Last Question, Greg Bear's Blood Music, and Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End provide diversions on this theme.

* Childhood's End, a science fiction book by Arthur C. Clarke that contains an alien species known as the Overlords

" Roland Green in his review for Booklist was much more positive saying " Baxter uses many more characters and viewpoint shifts than Arthur C. Clarke in support of a theme that distinctly recalls Clarke's classic Childhood's End ( 1953 ).

On stage he received extensive critical acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the National Theatre ; and Pinter's The Homecoming and Miller's The Price in the West End, also appearing in Visiting Mr. Green in 2007 and 2008.

In Bea Arthur's Tony Award-nominated one-woman show, Just Between Friends, which she played on Broadway and in London's West End, Arthur performs Pierce's favorite joke, A Mother's Ingenuity.

Ran on the West End starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson ( succeeded by Wendy Hiller ) to success but mixed reviews-many critics felt it too closely resembled Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman-and had a brief but unsuccessful run on Broadway starring Hiller and Eric Portman.

On stage, he had particular success in the last decade of his life in two plays by Arthur Wing Pinero, playing Mr Posket in The Magistrate and Augustin Jedd in Dandy Dick both at the Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End of London.

Sherman's " The End of a Symphony ," spotlighting Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops Orchestra, reached # 113 on the " Bubbling Under " chart in 1964, but did not make the Hot 100.

In the 2008 episode " The Beginning Of The End " of the BBC television series Merlin, a prequel to and re-imagining of the Arthur legends, Mordred appears as a young Druid boy whom Merlin protects despite being warned that he would one day kill Arthur.

Richardson made his London début in July 1926 as the stranger in Oedipus at Colonus at a small theatre, followed by his West End début as Arthur Varwell in Yellow Sands which ran for 610 performances and from then to 1929 played in supporting roles in London productions.

After being stranded on pre-historic Earth after the events in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Arthur Dent is met by his old friend Ford Prefect, who drags him into a space-time eddy, represented by an anachronistic sofa.

She has recorded with many world-famous musicians and has provided music for several soundtracks, including Titanic, To End All Wars and King Arthur.

In film, she was featured vocalist on King Arthur ( 2004 ), co-writing the title theme " Tell Me Now ( What You See )" with Hans Zimmer and wrote additional music score for To End All Wars ( 2001 ).

Their father, Arthur Piranha, was a TV quizmaster and scrapmetal dealer who was well known to the police and a devout Catholic, who in January 1928 had married Kitty Malone, an up and coming East End boxer.

* Memorial Cup – Owen Sound Greys defeats Port Arthur West End Juniors

Arthur Morrison ( 1863 – 1945 ), best known for his grim novels about London's East End, lived in Salcombe House, Loughton High Road.

The Wild brothers sought acting roles to supplement their parents ' income, and both were cast in a West End theatre production of Lionel Bart's Oliver !, Arthur in the title role, and Jack as a member of Fagin's gang.

During World War II, Askey starred in several Gainsborough Pictures comedy films, including Band Waggon ( 1940 ), based on the radio show ; Charley's ( Big-Hearted ) Aunt ( 1940 ); The Ghost Train ( 1941 ); I Thank You ( 1941 ); Back Room Boy ( 1942 ); King Arthur Was a Gentleman ( 1942 ); Miss London Ltd. ( 1943 ) and Bees in Paradise ( 1944 ); as well as the popular West End musical Follow the Girls.