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'''Arthur Charles Clarke''' is an [[England|Englishman]] and [[science fiction]] writer. He is notable as one of the "Big Three" authors of science fiction, along with [[Isaac Asimov]] and [[Robert A. Heinlein]], both of whom he regarded as friends.
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'''Arthur Charles Clarke''' is an [[England|English]] [[science fiction]] [[writer]]. He is notable as one of the "Big Three" authors of science fiction, along with [[Isaac Asimov]] and [[Robert A. Heinlein]], both of whom he regarded as friends.  Clarke's most famous work is probably ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.
    
He invented the concept of the [[communications satellite]]<ref>[http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.ETRelays.html 'Extra-Terrestrial Relays' Wireless World, 1945]</ref> and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 movie ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Both the movie and the book were based on "The Sentinel", a short story written by Clark in 1948. He lives in [[Sri Lanka]].
 
He invented the concept of the [[communications satellite]]<ref>[http://www.lsi.usp.br/~rbianchi/clarke/ACC.ETRelays.html 'Extra-Terrestrial Relays' Wireless World, 1945]</ref> and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 movie ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''. Both the movie and the book were based on "The Sentinel", a short story written by Clark in 1948. He lives in [[Sri Lanka]].
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