Arthur C. Clarke Publishes on Fatbrain.com

Posted on January 24, 2000

Fatbrain.com has announced that Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, has published work with Fatbrain.com. Clarke's recent speech to the United Nations World Television Forum, entitled "TV's Time-Travel Future: Catching the Light of Other Days," is now available on FatBrain's eMatter. eMatter is an online publishing solution which offers authors royalties for every document sold.

Last November, Clarke presented the speech to the United Nations World Television Forum, an annual conference that draws together senior leaders from the television and broadcasting industry to reflect on how television is being used in the service of humankind. The speech presents Clarke's view that television has the ability to both unify and distort, and that the medium has been a driving force in the creation of a global family.

"Until now, access to groundbreaking ideas from great thinkers like Arthur C. Clarke has been limited to the live audience in attendance," said Judy Kirkpatrick, vice president and general manager of eMatter for Fatbrain.com. "With eMatter, there is now a channel for visionary ideas presented in the form of speeches, scripts and short stories. Today Mr. Clarke is an early contributor to what will undoubtedly become an unparalleled reservoir of discourse and insight which until now has been unavailable through traditional publishing."

In addition to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke has written Childhood's End, The Nine Billion Names of God and more than 60 other books. He is the originator of the principle for satellite communications using satellites in geostationary orbits. The fourth annual United Nations World Television Forum took place at United Nations headquarters on November 18 and 19, 1999. Clarke addressed the forum live via satellite from his home in Sri Lanka.