Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008[2]) was 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.

Arthur.C.Clarke is probably the world's best known and bestselling science fiction writer. He has won
innumerable international awards for his fiction, for his science writing and for his inspirational
role as one of the chief prophets of the space age. His collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on 2001 : A
SPACE ODYSSEY set new standards for SF films, and he has also presented the television series
ARTHUR.C.CLARKE'S MYSTERIOUS WORLD and its successors. He was described by the New York Times as being
"awesomely informed about physics and blessed with one of the most astounding imaginations ever
encountered in print."

In 1982 Clarke continued the 2001 epic with a sequel, 2010: Odyssey Two. This novel was also made into
a film, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, directed by Peter Hyams for release in 1984. Due to the
political environment in America in the 1980s, the novel and film present a Cold War theme, with the
looming tensions of nuclear war. The film was not considered to be as revolutionary or artistic as 2001,
but the reviews were still positive.

Clarke's email correspondence with Hyams was published in 1984. Titled The Odyssey File: The Making of
2010, and co-authored with Hyams, it illustrates his fascination with the then-pioneering medium and
its use for them to communicate on an almost daily basis at the time of planning and production of the
film while living on different continents. The book also includes Clarke's list of the best
science-fiction films ever made.