Sign in with Facebook
Astounding Days: The S...
Loading...
Astounding Days: The Science Fictional Autobiography
From Library Journal
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 fir...more
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 fir...more
Published
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
93)
For those only familiar with the late Sir Arthur's award-winning, best-selling science fiction, this is an eye-opener to the fact that he could just as skillfully write engaging, humor-laced non-fiction essays filled with information, inside dope on his famous contemporaries like John W. Campbell and Willy Ley, and fond reminiscences from childhood on. This book is actually one-half of Clarke's two-pronged memoirs; the other half is the chronicle of his scientific/engineering career, GLIDE PATH....more
The constant horn-tooting grew tiresome after a while; also too much quibbling over science points. Would've been better if it had stayed back in the era of his youth. Oddly seems too personal--or not personal enough; merely telling of the chaps he's met and knows throughout his life and not enough (though there is some early on) of the wonder of the stuff that drew him to it early on. Comes across as a real Asimov type--a science geek who never quite grew up all the way (never really had to, I...more
An anecdotal look at some of the writers who appeared in Astounding Stories during the 1930s and 1940s. It's a loose account, with plenty of tangents, but Clarke makes for an expert and personable guide. Another distant place Clarke takes us to.
Jun 12, 2013
Gilbert Heroux
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
books-i-might-have
May 09, 2013
Jules
marked it as others-in-my-library
Feb 18, 2013
Christopher York
marked it as to-read
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
arthur-c-clarke
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
Arthur C. Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.
Clarke was a graduate of King's Co...more
More about Arthur C. Clarke...
Clarke was a graduate of King's Co...more
Share This Book
No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »
