![]() ![]() At the same time, he became involved with the British Interplanetary Society, an association formed by fans of science fiction and space science. In 1936, he could no longer afford his education and dropped out to work as a government auditor. Wells, Olaf Stapledon, and other British science fiction writers, and he wrote stories for a school magazine as a teenager. Like many children in his generation, Clarke first discovered science fiction through Amazing Stories, one of the popular science fiction pulp magazines-so-called because they were printed on cheap, wood-pulp paper. ![]() Author BiographyĬlarke was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somersetshire, England. "'If I Forget Thee, O Earth …'" can be found in Clarke's Tales from Planet Earth, published by ibooks, inc., in 2001. However, it is Clarke's novels-most notably Childhood's End the novelization of his screenplay for the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous with Rama-that have made him famous. Critics and popular readers alike appreciate the cautionary message in this story and note the quality of many of Clarke's short stories in general. He realizes that he is in permanent exile and that only his descendants will be able to return home. However, joy turns to despair as he sees the glowing, radioactive earth that has been destroyed by an atomic World War III. In this story, Marvin, the ten-year-old main character who lives in a lunar colony, gets to see an earthrise for the first time. decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II ushered in the atomic age, and many writers, especially science fiction writers, wrote stories depicting an atomic apocalypse. The story tapped into one of the great fears of the 1950s, the threat of atomic war. ![]() However, it received its greatest exposure when it was collected in Clarke's Expedition to Earth, which was published in 1953. ![]() Clarke, was first published in Future magazine in 1951. "'If I Forget Thee, O Earth …,'" by Arthur C. "If I Forget Thee, O Earth …" Introduction Author Biography Plot Summary Characters Themes Style Historical Context Critical Overview Criticism Sources Further Reading ![]()
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