Clarkean

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adjective Of or pertaining to Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), English philosopher.
adjective Of or pertaining to Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008), British science fiction writer and futurist.

Clarke +‎ -an

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Your "Clarkean" argument of steampunk is quite elegant, Lavie - I couldn´t agree more!

[GUEST POST] Lavie Tidhar Asks 'What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Steampunk?' 2010
We're given Lukyanenkoan agents, yet more Clarkean space artifacts and the retreading of ye olde evolution into virtuality and beyond.

MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009
Re. the role of magic in the literature of the fantastic, one thing that I find of particular interest is what might be called Clarkean magic, from Sir Arthur C. Clarke's famous dictum that a sufficiently advanced technology will appear as magic to the uninitiated.

superversive: Update?! superversive 2010
One assumes it's a Clarkean bridge to orbit, but it's never stated.

Forgotten Books 2009
One assumes it's a Clarkean bridge to orbit, but it's never stated.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009
The Clarkean picture, in which matter is completely passive, is incapable of explaining the regularities exhibited in the interaction of material bodies in terms of those bodies.

Samuel Clarke Vailati, Ezio 2009
For every carefully considered Clarkean novel about space exploration, there was another looneytune space opera.

Another Strong Tide of Reviews, Washing In . . . Walter Jon Williams 2008
For every carefully considered Clarkean novel about space exploration, there was another looneytune space opera.

Archive 2008-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008