Arthur C Clarke Dead @ 90
#3
Posted: 3/18/08 at 7:01pm
Vonnegut, Mailer and now Clarke... wow a rough time for brilliant writers.
RIP.
RIP.
#4
Posted: 3/18/08 at 7:03pm
I thought he was 190. Rest in peace.
PEACE.
#5
Posted: 3/18/08 at 8:15pm
One of the last of the golden age Speculative Fiction origionators. Say hi To Hugo Gernsback for all us sci fi geeks!
#6
Posted: 3/18/08 at 9:07pm
What a bummer!
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"
#7
Posted: 3/19/08 at 1:15am
With the state the world is in, it's sad to lose a visionary of any age.
Article.
Article.
#8
Posted: 3/19/08 at 1:36am
an absolutely, ABSOLUTELY talented author.
His Childhood's End, written the year of my birth is what got me into Sci Fi......amazing man, and will be missed
His Childhood's End, written the year of my birth is what got me into Sci Fi......amazing man, and will be missed
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#9
Posted: 3/19/08 at 9:16am
I'm sorry to hear of this. Good old Arthur C. So many wonderful stories. I wonder when/if anyone is going to film CHILDHOOD'S END, not that they'd do it justice so it is probably just as well.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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