LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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a science fiction writer
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a modern dramatist
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a famous English Novelist
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A short story writer
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Detailed explanation-1: -His best known works are the script he wrote with American film director Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the novel of that film. Clarke was interested in science from childhood, but he lacked the means for higher education.
Detailed explanation-2: -Edgar Allan Poe is often mentioned with Verne and Wells as the founders of science fiction although Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein predates these. A number of his short stories, and the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket are science fictional.
Detailed explanation-3: -Arthur C. Clarke, a writer whose seamless blend of scientific expertise and poetic imagination helped usher in the space age, died early Wednesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since 1956.
Detailed explanation-4: -"The Sentinel” is a science fiction short story by British author Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1948 and first published in 1951 as “Sentinel of Eternity", which was used as a starting point for the 1968 novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey.