Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (born 16 December 1917) is a British science-fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of what was sometimes known as the "Big Three" of science fiction, which included Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.
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