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[i]Arthur C. Clarke is best remembered as Stanley Kubrick's partner in the creation of "2001: A Space Odyssey," a cinematic landmark in visual and technocultural storytelling. However, his most enduring legacy lives in his six-decade career as a science fiction and popular science writer. The centenary of his birth on 16 December is a good time to reflect on this great writer and his impact on modern culture... "The Exploration of Space" is not the first English-language work of its kind: David Lasser's "The Conquest of Space" (1931) holds that honor. Clarke's book, however, is arguably a more mature expression of Lasser's early space-flight dreams. It sits at the end of two additional decades of research, speculation, and advocacy by the international community of rocket pioneers and interplanetary enthusiasts Clarke considered his core audience. His active participation in that movement as a member of the British Interplanetary Society gives "The Exploration of Space" the discursive authority and technical depth necessary for a project seeking a wider public. Clarke's aim in this book is to both inform and inspire, to teach the science and technology of space travel and its utility in reaching other worlds. The result is a classic of romantic science writing, the nonfiction genre that made outer-space culture a part of everyday life in the 1950s and 1960s.[/i]
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