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(1917-2008) UK author, resident since 1956 in Sri Lanka. Born in Minehead, Somerset, after leaving
school Clarke came to London in 1936 to work as a civil-servant auditor with HM Exchequer. He was
active in fan circles before World War Two, in which he served (1941-1946) as a radar instructor
with the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the War he entered King's College,
London, in 1948 taking his BSc with first-class honours in physics and mathematics. He received
the SFWA GRAND MASTER AWARD in 1986; he was inducted into the SCIENCE FICTION HALL OF FAME in 1997;
and he was knighted in 1998.
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