British science fiction author — author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End, and Rendezvous with Rama — who proposed the geostationary satellite concept — one of the Big Three of science fiction (with Asimov and Heinlein).
Creates the geostationary satellite concept and philosophically ambitious hard SF — Clarke's 1945 paper proposing the geostationary orbit for communications satellites is the most practically consequential science fiction idea in history (the technology was implemented by others but is universally known as Clarke orbit); 2001 is the most philosophically ambitious hard SF novel.
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