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    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Dog Star"
    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Dog Star"
    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Dog Star"
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    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Dog Star"

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    A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Dog Star," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535822022
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      A Study Guide for Arthur C. Clarke's "Dog Star" - Gale

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      Dog Star

      Arthur C. Clarke

      1962

      Introduction

      Sir Arthur C. Clarke is universally acknowledged as a grand master among science fiction writers. His place in the development and growth of the genre is almost unparalleled, but even more important is his use of the science fiction genre to communicate to a general audience the possibilities of human technical achievement. Clarke was well placed to undertake this work, having served in the radar branch of the Royal Air Force during World War II. Around that time Clarke became the first to consider the possibility of geo-synchronous satellites to support a worldwide telecommunications network. Having earned a degree in engineering immediately after the war, he became president of the British Interplanetary Society and directed basic research on space travel—a precursor of the American space program. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Clarke wrote popular books about space flight and speculated about the exploration of the solar system. This period culminated in his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on the landmark 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

      Clarke's story Dog Star was originally published in 1962 in the pulp magazine Galaxy Science Fiction under the title Moondog. It was reprinted in 1967 in his collection The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C. Clarke and has been frequently anthologized. Dog Star shares the focus of much of Clarke's early work: to show how technology would radically alter the lives of the World War II generation.

      Author Biography

      Clarke was born on November 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England. He grew up pursuing astronomy as a hobby and reading the then-popular science fiction pulp magazines. During World War II, Clarke served as an instructor in the new radar technology program for Royal Air Force personnel. During the war he considered the fact that a satellite orbiting Earth at a distance of 23,336 miles (now called the Clarke orbit in his honor) would have an orbital period equal to one day and thus remain stationary over the same position on Earth. While this was well known, it occurred to Clarke that if three satellites evenly positioned around Earth were put into this orbit, they would be able to see each other as well as one third of the surface of Earth and thus could instantly transmit radio signals from one area of Earth

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