ARTHOUR C.
CLARKE
Arthur C. Clarke is widely regarded as one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time.
He also made significant contributions to science and culture in other ways, including a 1945 essay that helped inspire the concept of communications satellites.
Arthur Clarke’s books have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. He died shortly after completing the present trilogy, in the spring of 2008.
Stephen Baxter holds engineering degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Southampton. He is best known for his Manifold series of novels.
He has won the British Science Fiction Award, the Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award, and has also been a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
