The request came to him on the set of 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Peter Hyams’ sequel to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, which appears on Clarke’s list.
(A useful ability indeed, given that, in the words of sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon, “ninety percent of everything,” his and Clarke’s field not excepted, “is crap.”)Īsked in 1984 to name his favorite science-fiction films, Clarke came up with this top-twelve: He must also have possessed quite a discerning ear and eye for other works of science fiction - an ability, in other words, to separate the art and the insight from the nonsense. When not writing such now-classics of the tradition as Childhood’s End, Rendezvous with Rama, and 2001: a Space Odyssey, he predicted such actual elements of humanity’s future as 3D printers and the internet.
Clarke seemed to possess a mind precision-engineered for every aspect of it. Many thinkers enjoy science fiction, and some even create it, but Arthur C.
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