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Kyle Holgate
03-19-2008, 02:28 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/18/obit.clarke/index.html

A man whome I consider a great visionary has departed for the unknown. May he rest or work or play or whatever happens in peace!
asnrobert
03-19-2008, 11:02 AM
I didn't even realize he was still alive- he seemed to have been around forever.
clacton2
03-19-2008, 11:29 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/18/obit.clarke/index.html

A man whome I consider a great visionary has departed for the unknown. May he rest or work or play or whatever happens in peace!

Hi,
He was the man whose books got me interested in science fiction and space travel. I specifically remember reading 2001: A Space Odyessy whilst I was in school.
He will be sadly missed.
Jon:(
john964
03-19-2008, 02:42 PM
Arthur C Clarke is one of my all time favorite authers. His brand of scifi was more sceince fact, his was whithin the relm of possability not way out there.

Some of my favorites are
Songs of a Distant Earth
Hammer of God
Goast of the Grand Banks
Fountans of Paridise
Childhoods End
Mike Malanaphy
03-19-2008, 03:35 PM
Arthur C Clarke is one of my all time favorite authers. His brand of scifi was more sceince fact, his was whithin the relm of possability not way out there.

Some of my favorites are
Songs of a Distant Earth
Hammer of God
Goast of the Grand Banks
Fountans of Paridise
Childhoods End


Hi Guys,

I read Clarke from when I was in junior high school and many of his essays were thought provoking and controversial. Two I remember were that the baby boomers were the first generation in history to be raised by three parents.....mom, dad, and the TV. OOOOPS, he didn't antcipate the divorce rate and the use of sattelites to beam ****ography into your enemy's country.
Ed Rotondaro
03-19-2008, 06:05 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/18/obit.clarke/index.html

A man whome I consider a great visionary has departed for the unknown. May he rest or work or play or whatever happens in peace!


Kyle:

Thanks for the update. Clarke was truly one of the authors who got interested in sci-fi and his vision of a world where nations worked together is still something to hope for.
clacton2
03-20-2008, 11:12 AM
Kyle:

Thanks for the update. Clarke was truly one of the authors who got interested in sci-fi and his vision of a world where nations worked together is still something to hope for.

Ed,
He was one of a trio of writers who really got me interested in sci-fi, the universe and everything when I was a kid. Their visions of the future really excited me at the time, we can only hope they may come true.
The other two were: Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.
Jon:D
Saffron
03-20-2008, 12:41 PM
I haven't read much of Arthur C Clarke's fiction, but I came to know of him through his work on the Cydonia region of Mars. He was one of the few big names who accepted the possibility of an ancient (now extinct) civilization on Mars that left behind artifacts for us to find. He wanted NASA to take the possibility seriously ... but of course they didn't.
keschofield
03-20-2008, 01:47 PM
A great light in our world is now gone. A very sad day.
Ed Rotondaro
03-20-2008, 02:34 PM
Ed,
He was one of a trio of writers who really got me interested in sci-fi, the universe and everything when I was a kid. Their visions of the future really excited me at the time, we can only hope they may come true.
The other two were: Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov.
Jon:D

Jon:

I never read a bad Arthur Clarke story (although the 3rd. 2001 book was stretching the concept a little bit).