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** YMMV. Using chemical rockets would still take tens of thousands to reach even the nearest star.
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* StraightGay: According to Creator/MichaelMoorcock. Others placed him as AmbiguouslyGay; he himself, when asked whether or not he was gay, said, "no, merely [[HaveAGayOldTime mildly cheerful]]."
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: "Rescue Party" has a TwistEnding which reveals that humans managed to get off the doomed Earth after all, by means of [[HomeworldEvacuation the entire population boarding rockets]] and [[GenerationShip heading for the nearest star at slower-than-light speed]]. This shocks the aliens who had tried to rescue them, since rockets are AwesomeButImpractical and no previous civilization reached the stars without significantly more advanced technology than this. The story was written in 1946, at a time when no rocket was big enough to carry one human, let alone a whole group, and when rockets only had use as weapons of war. So the contemporary audience was without a doubt supposed to agree with the aliens' sentiment and think that [[HumansAreSpecial only humans could think outside the box]]. But reading from a time when all real manned space exploration has used rockets to get there, and no other form of propulsion is even being planned, causes the subtext that HumanityIsInsane to be lost.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: "Rescue Party" has a TwistEnding which reveals that humans managed to get off the doomed Earth after all, by means of [[HomeworldEvacuation the entire population boarding rockets]] and [[GenerationShip heading for the nearest star at slower-than-light speed]]. This shocks the aliens who had tried to rescue them, since rockets are AwesomeButImpractical and no previous civilization reached the stars without significantly more advanced technology than this. The story was written in 1946, at a time when no rocket was big enough to carry one human, let alone a whole group, and when rockets only had use as weapons of war. So the contemporary audience was without a doubt supposed to agree with the aliens' sentiment and think that [[HumansAreSpecial only humans could think outside the box]]. But reading from a time when all real manned space exploration has used rockets to get there, and no other form of propulsion is even being planned, causes the subtext that HumanityIsInsane to be lost.
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Clark would be diagnosed with post-polio syndrome in 1988, having originally suffered a bout of polio in 1962. As a result, he had to use a wheelchair most of the time thereafter. His syndrome worsened with age, severely limiting his ability to travel and giving him problems with speaking. Clarke eventually passed away on 19 March 2008, at the age of 90, from respiratory complications and heart failure related to his post-polio syndrome. His final work would be ''The Last Theorem'', which he had written in collaboration over e-mail with fellow author, Creator/FrederikPohl. Clarke had reviewed the final manuscript in early March 2008, just days before he died, and the book was eventually completed by Pohl, and released after the former's death.
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# When [[TheProfessor a distinguished but elderly scientist]] [[LectureAsExposition states that something is possible]], he is [[ChekhovsClassroom almost certainly right]]. When he states that [[WeirdnessCensor something is impossible]], he is [[ArbitrarySkepticism very probably wrong]].
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# When [[TheProfessor a distinguished but elderly scientist]] states that [[LectureAsExposition states that something is possible]], he is [[ChekhovsClassroom almost certainly right]]. When he states that [[WeirdnessCensor something is impossible]], he is [[ArbitrarySkepticism very probably wrong]].
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** In a somewhat sad example, rarely do love interests work out for the good. A common phrase used in his collections of short stories is "married another man." In the Space Odyssey series, Heywood Floyd is divorced twice with the second being on his way to Jupiter. In 3001 the first woman Poole falls for ends up horrified due to his 'mutilation' (non-medical circumcision having ceased to be a thing by the 31st century) and the second relationship falls apart romantically 15 years after they get married and have kids.
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* StraightGay: According to Creator/MichaelMoorcock. Others placed him as AmbiguouslyGay; he himself, when asked whether or not he was gay, said, "no, merely [[ExactWords mildly]] [[HaveAGayOldTime mildly cheerful]]."
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** "Loophole" has Martians telling Earth to stop rocketry research, or else. Earth stops researching rockets. [[spoiler: Instead, they perfect matter transportation and bomb the Martians out of existence without launching a single rocket.]]
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* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Clarke's works, for the most part, lie firmly on the "hard" side of this sliding scale. Hardly surprising, given that he had been a radar operator in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and that training was in mathematics and physics. In ''The Songs of Distant Earth'', for example, he had to invoke the rather speculative possibility of zero-point energy just so he'd have a power source for a ''slower''-than-light starship.
** "Jupiter Five" was dedicated to Professor G. C. [=McVitte=] as writing the story involved having twenty to thirty pages of orbital calculations drawn up.
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* FailedFutureForecast: Soviet Russia in stories set after 1990 -- including ''2010: Odyssey 2''.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: "Rescue Party" has a TwistEnding which reveals that humans managed to get off the doomed Earth after all, by means of [[HomeworldEvacuation the entire population boarding rockets]] and [[GenerationShip heading for the nearest star at slower-than-light speed]]. This shocks the aliens who had tried to rescue them, since rockets are AwesomeButImpractical and no previous civilization reached the stars without significantly more advanced technology than this. The story was written in 1946, at a time when no rocket was big enough to carry one human, let alone a whole group, and when rockets only had use as weapons of war. So the contemporary audience was without a doubt supposed to agree with the aliens' sentiment and think that [[HumansAreSpecial only humans could think outside the box]]. But reading from a time when all real manned space exploration has used rockets to get there, and no other form of propulsion is even being planned, causes the subtext that HumanityIsInsane to be lost.
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* Uplifted Animal: 'Superchimps' or 'simps' (an in-universe misnomer - they're uplifted monkeys, not apes) appear in some of his works, including ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' and "A Meeting with Medusa". Clarke also used this theme with respect to humanity itself in ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]''. The {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s took a tribe of apes and manipulated their intelligence, planting the seeds of modern man. They then [[spoiler:took a modern man, and uplifted him to create a Star Child]].
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* FuturePrimitives: In "History Lesson", the ice age has caused the collapse of human civilization, and by the time the glacier close over the equator the last living humans are stone-age primitives.
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** "The Nine Billion Names of God" is about a religious sect which hires a computer and two technicians to print out all the names of God, which they believe is the purpose of the universe. [[spoiler:The technicians decide to cut and run before the program is finished to avoid the monks' anger and disappointment when the world fails to end. The final line has them looking up and seeing that [[TheStarsAreGoingOut "Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."]]]]
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** In the short story "History Lesson", Venusian reptiles discover a few relics of now-extinct humanity. One of them is a canister containing a reel of film, which the Venusians view and attempt to interpret for clues about human civilization -- an effort that will lead to nothing but confusing false conclusions:
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** The DistantEpilogue of ''The Fountains of Paradise'', set fifteen centuries after the rest of the story, describes the fog of historical knowledge:knowledge. One the one hand, preserved records and basic tenets of reality mean that there are some figures that are very clearly either historic or fictional. On the other, this leaves a broad category of figures from folklore, literature and religion that cannot be clearly put in either camp, leaving doubt over whether such people as Sherlock Holmes or Frankenstein really did exist.
* FuturePrimitives: In "History Lesson", the ice age has caused the collapse of human civilization, and by the time the glacier close over the equator the last living humans are stone-age primitives.
* GlacialApocalypse: The first half of "History Lesson" follows a tribe of primitive humans migrating south to avoid the glaciers of an oncoming ice age caused by a chance cooling of the Sun. This caused a gradual growth of the polar glaciers, driving living things further and further south. By the 30th century, when the story opens, humanity endures only as Neolithic primitives and finds itself doomed when, on reaching the equator, it meets the Antarctic glaciers approaching from the south. The ice eventually closes, driving humanity extinct, and leaving only scattered bones and artifacts to be studied by intelligent beings who eventually arise on a Venus rendered cool enough to support life.
* GlacialApocalypse: The first half of "History Lesson" follows a tribe of primitive humans migrating south to avoid the glaciers of an oncoming ice age caused by a chance cooling of the Sun. This caused a gradual growth of the polar glaciers, driving living things further and further south. By the 30th century, when the story opens, humanity endures only as Neolithic primitives and finds itself doomed when, on reaching the equator, it meets the Antarctic glaciers approaching from the south. The ice eventually closes, driving humanity extinct, and leaving only scattered bones and artifacts to be studied by intelligent beings who eventually arise on a Venus rendered cool enough to support life.
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** "Who's There" has a fluffy TomatoSurprise. [[spoiler:The reader is lead to believe by the character that something is trying to get into his spacesuit, or that the spacesuit is about to fail because it was repaired after a previous fatal accident. Instead, the astronaut is simply hearing the muffled noises and scratchings of three [[CuteKitten kittens 'nesting' in the space suit and were born to the station mascot.]]]]
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** "Breaking Strain" is a story about Grant (ship captain), and [=McNeil=] (engineer) who become [[ColdEquation trapped on a wrecked ship with only enough air to last one of them]]. The twist is [[spoiler: that Grant has badly misjudged [=McNeil=] and Grant eventual accepts his own death to allow [=McNeil=] to survive]].
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* LivingGasbag: "Meeting with Medusa" featured the discovery of a miles-long jellyfish-like creature floating in the atmosphere of Jupiter. (In biology, ''medusa'' is a term applied to certain forms of jellyfish.)
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* Uplifted Animal: 'Superchimps' or 'simps' (an in-universe misnomer - they're uplifted monkeys, not apes) appear in some of his works, including ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' and "A Meeting with Medusa". Clarke also used this theme with respect to humanity itself in ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]''. The {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s took a tribe of apes and manipulated their intelligence, planting the seeds of modern man. They then [[spoiler:took a modern man, and uplifted him to create a Star Child]].
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One of the world's most famous science fiction writers, Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) is responsible for works such as: ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'', the ''Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries'', ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' and ''Literature/TheSongsOfDistantEarth''. Has influenced almost all the science fiction that has arrived in his wake, from ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'' to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Much of his fiction features Creator/OHenry style {{twist ending}}s at the end of each story or chapter. He is considered one of the "Big Three" of ScienceFiction along with Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/RobertAHeinlein. He was the last of the Big Three to leave us, after Heinlein and Asimov, in that order.
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One of the world's most famous science fiction writers, [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever Sir]] Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) is responsible for works such as: ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'', the ''Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries'', ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' and ''Literature/TheSongsOfDistantEarth''. Has influenced almost all the science fiction that has arrived in his wake, from ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'' to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Much of his fiction features Creator/OHenry style {{twist ending}}s at the end of each story or chapter. He is considered one of the "Big Three" of ScienceFiction along with Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/RobertAHeinlein. He was the last of the Big Three to leave us, after Heinlein and Asimov, in that order.
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* FutureImperfect:
** In the short story "History Lesson", Venusian reptiles discover a few relics of now-extinct humanity. One of them is a canister containing a reel of film, which the Venusians view and attempt to interpret for clues about human civilization -- an effort that will lead to nothing but confusing false conclusions:
--->Millions of times in the ages to come those last few words would flash across the screen, and none could ever guess their meaning: ''A Walt Disney Production''.
** The DistantEpilogue of ''The Fountains of Paradise'', set fifteen centuries after the rest of the story, describes the fog of historical knowledge:
--->There seemed to be a continuous spectrum between absolute fantasy and hard historical facts, with every possible graduation in between. At the one end were such figures as Columbus and Leonardo and Einstein and Lenin and Newton and Washington, whose very voices and images had often been preserved. At the other extreme were Zeus and Alice and King Kong and Gulliver and Siegfried and Merlin, who could not possibly have existed in the real world. But what was one to make of Robin Hood or Tarzan or Christ or Sherlock Holmes or Odysseus or Frankenstein? Allowing for a certain amount of exaggeration, they might well have been actual historic personages.
** In the short story "History Lesson", Venusian reptiles discover a few relics of now-extinct humanity. One of them is a canister containing a reel of film, which the Venusians view and attempt to interpret for clues about human civilization -- an effort that will lead to nothing but confusing false conclusions:
--->Millions of times in the ages to come those last few words would flash across the screen, and none could ever guess their meaning: ''A Walt Disney Production''.
** The DistantEpilogue of ''The Fountains of Paradise'', set fifteen centuries after the rest of the story, describes the fog of historical knowledge:
--->There seemed to be a continuous spectrum between absolute fantasy and hard historical facts, with every possible graduation in between. At the one end were such figures as Columbus and Leonardo and Einstein and Lenin and Newton and Washington, whose very voices and images had often been preserved. At the other extreme were Zeus and Alice and King Kong and Gulliver and Siegfried and Merlin, who could not possibly have existed in the real world. But what was one to make of Robin Hood or Tarzan or Christ or Sherlock Holmes or Odysseus or Frankenstein? Allowing for a certain amount of exaggeration, they might well have been actual historic personages.
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* NoSmoking: In-universe in ''The Ghost from Grand Banks''. One of the characters has a job digitally removing smoking scenes from old films. Anti-smoking sentiment has grown so strong that people won't watch them otherwise.
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* ''Literature/TheLightOfOtherDays'' (with Creator/StephenBaxter)
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One of the world's most famous science fiction writers, Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) is responsible for works such as: ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'', the ''Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries'', ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' and ''Literature/TheSongsOfDistantEarth''. Has influenced almost all the science fiction that has arrived in his wake, from ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'' to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Much of his fiction features Creator/OHenry style {{twist ending}}s at the end of each story or chapter. He is considered one of the "Big Three" of ScienceFiction along with Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/RobertAHeinlein. He was the last of the Big Three to leave us, after Heinlein and Asimov, in that order.
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One of the world's most famous science fiction writers, Arthur C. Charles Clarke (1917–2008) (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) is responsible for works such as: ''Literature/ChildhoodsEnd'', the ''Literature/TheSpaceOdysseySeries'', ''Literature/RendezvousWithRama'' and ''Literature/TheSongsOfDistantEarth''. Has influenced almost all the science fiction that has arrived in his wake, from ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'' to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Much of his fiction features Creator/OHenry style {{twist ending}}s at the end of each story or chapter. He is considered one of the "Big Three" of ScienceFiction along with Creator/IsaacAsimov and Creator/RobertAHeinlein. He was the last of the Big Three to leave us, after Heinlein and Asimov, in that order.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn:
** If you read his collected short stories, many of his '50s stories involve his AuthorAppeal communications satellites. The difference between his stories and the eventual reality? His stories always feature ''manned'' Space Stations as the communication/broadcast satellites.
** Stories involving manned planetary/lunar expeditions/colonies.
** The British having anything to do with the above lunar expeditions.
** If you read his collected short stories, many of his '50s stories involve his AuthorAppeal communications satellites. The difference between his stories and the eventual reality? His stories always feature ''manned'' Space Stations as the communication/broadcast satellites.
** Stories involving manned planetary/lunar expeditions/colonies.
** The British having anything to do with the above lunar expeditions.