The Light of Other Days is hard sci-fi done right, very accessible, yet interesting, intelligent and mind blowing. If we succeed with the expansion, for the first time we’ll be able to see our wormhole mouth-with a hand lens” “A wormhole mouth is a sphere, floating freely in space. This bit of expository dialogue is also of “pop-science” level: You don’t normally get this kind of “pop-science” from Clarke or Baxter. You have to cut a chunk out of our three-dimensional space and join it onto another such chunk.” A wormhole is a shortcut through a fourth dimension. “I grew up with enough bad pop-science shows. Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction.
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