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Chargement... Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography (A Bantam spectra book) (1989)par Arthur C. Clarke
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"Scientist and grand master of the genre (2001: A Space Odyssey) Clarke has given us a memoir of his youth. It centers on three editors, Harry Bates, F. Orlin Tremaine, and John W. Campbell, who created the magazine now known as Analog (until 1960 it was called Astounding Science Fiction). Clarke gives his reaction to the writers and illustrators who first aroused his interest in science fiction. The scientific ferment of the 1930s and the 1940s is related to the ideas of the period and to the author's work in rocketry and radar. A sweeping view of popular science and popular fiction." -- Goodreads.com. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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A very entertaining, chatty memoir of a portion of Clarke’s sf career. Reading this book is like hearing Clarke on his tv shows Mysterious World and World of Strange Powers. Clarke warmly recalls his early life, his introduction to sf (particularly Astounding, the central subject and touchstone of this book), and his days promoting rocketry with the British Interplanetary Society. Until I read this book, I didn’t realize how involved Clarke was in real science, not only with the BIS but early radar and (I always took it to be an exagerrated, somewhat apocryphal story) the development of communication satellites. Clarke knew an amazing number of famous people -- scientists, actors, newsmen, writers, directors -- many before they became famous. (