I wish to propose that the Nobel Prize for Literature for the year 1999 be awarded to the writer Arthur C. Clarke, presently resident at: Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The works on which I base my proposal that Mr. Clarke be awarded the Nobel Prize are his novels Childhood’s End, and City and Stars.
Although the rest of the opus created by Mr. Clarke represents just as respectable a basis for the award of a Nobel Prize, I shall restrict myself to formulating my proposal on the two works that I have quoted.
As you know, Mr. Clarke is an author of SF literature, and I am fully cognisant of the fact that the great majority of literary theoreticians do not regard such literature as being either serious or valuable. To date, a Nobel prize has never been awarded for an SF opus, although some of the authors who did receive the prize are, in addition to writing the usual and fully accepted genres, also authors of well known SF works for example, William Golding, 1983.
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