![]() ![]() ![]() It is in fact the largest organization in the world devoted specifically to space problems. ![]() It's quite a large one now, about three or four thousand members. It was a scientific society and it still is. And of course no one took it seriously until about, well after the Second World War when the V-2s started arriving, and still more after the satellites and Sputniks. Clarke Well, the British Interplanetary Society, which was started in 1933, was an organization that tried to convince people there was something in this space nonsense. Now wh- what is the British Interplanetary Society, of which you a past president?Īrthur C. And this is a sign of my particular benightedness because I know that you are a highly respected man in this field, sir. Clarke, I feel very guilty during this interview to be, because I know very little of science fiction of your work. But perhaps even above that, observer of the of the human comedy that is - Mr. He's the past president of the British Interplanetary Society, lectures, skin diver, globetrotter, explorer. ![]() It'd be hard to enumerate the various facets of Mr. Clarke, the man described by a good number of critics, highly respected critics as 'the colossus of science fiction'. Studs Terkel Across the microphone is Mr. ![]()
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