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- CLARKE, SIR ARTHUR C. [1917-2008]. Born in Minehead, Somerset,
- England he served as radar specialist during WWII. The ideas
- of geostationary communications satellites and space elevators
- are credited to him. In 1956, he moved to Colombo, Sri Lanka,
- receiving his knighthood there in 1998 by proxy from the UK
- High Commissioner due to his post-polio-syndrome which has had
- since 1988. Among his several dozens novels and collections
- are 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, 2061, 3001 and The
- Songs of Distant Earth. He is currently the Honorary Board
- Chair of the Institute for Cooperation in Space.
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