Excerpts from
Arthur C. Clarke: The Authorized Biography
By Neil McAleer

THIS PAGE: Editorial reviews

Permission to reprint these excerpts was granted to MysteryVisits in 2004 by Neil McAleer. MysteryVisits is proud to be able to make this material available online. For the full account about Sir Arthur, however, please obtain the complete book, published by Contemporary Books (Chicago USA) and Victor Gollancz Ltd. (London UK).


Foreword by Ray Bradbury
Foreword by Sir Patrick Moore
Preface by McAleer
Chapter 1: New Moon over Somerset
Chapter 28: 1984 [Part One]
[Part Two]
Photos of Sir Arthur: May 2004
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Editorial reviews

The Times, London, June 1992
"A highly enjoyable account of the life and times of one of the great science fiction writers."

Nature, Fall 1992:
"An anecdote-filled, compulsively readable story of Clarke's own voyage through the twentieth century and beyond."

Los Angeles Daily News, October 1992:
"Four Stars for a rollicking life that beats any fiction."

Booklist:
"No living sf writer is more deserving of a comprehensive biographer than Clarke, and here he has received one. . . . The effort certainly pays off in presenting a life that has been indispensable to the growth of modern sf and more than moderately useful to the world at large."

New Scientist:
"Remarkably complete … continuously fascinating. All the major elements of Clarke's life are described."

Manchester Evening News:
"Neil McAleer's deeply researched book is a long-overdue tribute."

Starlog:
"This well-written, easy-to-read, highly enjoyable biography is particularly welcome. …"


About the author:
Neil McAleer is the author of a number of books, including Earthlove, a science fiction novel, The Cosmic Mind-Boggling Book, The Body Almanac, and The Omni Space Almanac, which won the 1988 Robert S. Ball Award from the Aviation/Space Writers Association. He lives in Baltimore.

Book description:
The first biography of the great 20th century visionary and writer, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, with a foreword by Ray Bradbury.
This life explores Clarke's personal vision, his famous technical paper on a global satellite communications system in 1945, and his career as one of the twentieth century's most popular and influencial writers in science and science fiction. In 1968 he shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Through candid interviews with Clarke, his family, friends and colleagues, Neil McAleer reveals the life experiences and creative forces that have shaped the man behind the legend.

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