Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) was the author of dozens of novels, short stories, and essays, most famously 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he adapted, with Stanley Kubrick, into a widely acclaimed film in 1968. Clarke is widely recognized as a father of modern science fiction and brought the genre into the popular imagination. His famous Three Laws, including “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” have become modern proverbs. A scientist as well as a writer, he proposed the idea of geostationary satellites in a 1945 paper published more than a decade before the first orbital rocket launch.
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