With his literary agent, Scott Meredith, at Ballifants on July 1981

With costmonauts Alekei Leonov (left) and Vitaliy Sevastyanov in Star City, Russia, on June 15, 1982

With editor Vasili Zeharchenko at the offices of Teknika Molodezhi in Moscow, June 1982

With Yuri Artsutanov, inventor of the space elevator, in Leningrad, June 16, 1982

With Isaac Asimov, New York 1984

Clarke receives the Vidya Jyothi award from Sri Lanka's President J.R. Jayewardene in 1986

With his telescope at home at Sri Lanka in May 1987

A "framed" portrait ca. late 1980s

With physicist Stephen Hawking (center) and Magnus Magnusson at the BBC, 1988

With Apollo 11 astronauts Michael Collins (center) and Buzz Aldrin (right) at Fifth Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 1989

With astronaut Prince Sultan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989; the prince holds a copy of "2010."

Clarke with his home telescope

Clarke in his Ceylon office

Arthur C. Clarke's autograph

Clarke's business card (signed by Clarke), mid-1980s