🌠 Stories, works of noted British writer, scientist, and underwater explorer Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, include '2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).'⁠ ⁠ This most important and influential figure in 20th-century fiction spent the first half of his life in England and served in World War II as a radar operator before migrating to Ceylon in 1956. He co-created his best-known novel and movie with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.⁠ ⁠ Clarke, a graduate of King's College, London, obtained first-class honours in physics and mathematics. He served as past chairman of the Interplanetary Society and as a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other organizations.⁠ ⁠ He authored more than fifty books and won numerous awards: the Kalinga prize of 1961, the American Association for the Advancement Westinghouse prize, the Bradford Washburn award, and the John W. Campbell award for his novel Rendezvous with Rama. Clarke also won the Nebula Award for the fiction o...