# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Clarke joined the British Interplanetary Society as a teenager in 1934 and in 1945 proposed a satellite communication system using geostationary orbits—a concept that would underpin global telecommunications. His science fiction writing, which earned him Hugo and Nebula awards and a UNESCO Kalinga Prize in 1961, placed him alongside Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov in the genre's "Big Three." The 1968 screenplay he co-wrote for 2001: A Space Odyssey became one of the most influential films ever made. In 1956 he moved to Ceylon to dive, discovered underwater ruins of the ancient Koneswaram Temple in Trincomalee, and stayed. He hosted Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World in the 1980s, was knighted in 1998, and received Sri Lanka's highest civil honour in 2005, seven years before his death.