Writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 - Yahoo! NewsOne early book of his I read was The City and the Stars. I remember also a story about a solar-sail race - with a computer controlling the shroud lines about the size of a matchbox.COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who co-wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey" and won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday, an aide said. He was 90.
He predicted much of our present future, up to and including comsats and mp3 players. (The latter was in a story called "The Lion of Comarre")
Thank you, Mr. Clarke, for giving us a glimpse of a future worth living.
J.
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He was the last of the Big Three, along with Heinlein and Asimov. With him passes an age.
Posted by John C. | March 19, 2008 8:26 AM
Posted on March 19, 2008 08:26