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R.i.p. Arthur C. Clarke
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 7:27pm |
 Coolness: 192765 | Two weeks ago Gary Gygax died, today another great writer left us...
By Simon Gardner COLOMBO (Reuters) - Pioneering science fiction writer and visionary Sir Arthur C. Clarke, best known for his novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" and his towering influence on the genre, has died in Sri Lanka. He was 90. "He has passed away. He had a cardio-respiratory attack," said Rohan de Silva, his personal secretary. British-born Clarke wrote more than 80 books and hundreds of short stories and articles during a career that spanned some seven decades. In the 1940s Clarke predicted that man would reach the moon by the year 2000, an idea that experts dismissed as nonsense. When Neil Armstrong landed in 1969, the United States said Clarke "provided the essential intellectual drive that led us to the moon." On his 90th birthday in December 2007, the wheelchair-bound Clarke recorded a farewell message to his friends, saying in part that he would have liked to see evidence of extraterrestrial life during his lifetime. Clarke was born in Britain on Dec 16, 1917 and served as a radar specialist in the Royal Air Force during World War Two. He became involved in the British Interplanetary Society after the war, where he proposed an idea for geostationary satellites as telecommunications relays. But Clarke remains best known perhaps as the author of "2001: A Space Odyssey", which director Stanley Kubrick made into a film in 1968. -------------------- [ www.reuters.com ] |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 7:30pm |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:16pm |
 Coolness: 178735 | why is every human that I have respect for all die?
First Gygax, then Clarke... :( not cool |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» greatjob replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:20pm |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:23pm |
 Coolness: 2604075 | One of my favorite books...
Childhood's End is about humanity's transformation and integration to an interstellar hive mind, the Occult, man's inability to live in a utopian society, cruelty to animals, and the idea of being "The Last Man on Earth". The 1953 edition of the story begins when enormous alien spaceships one day appear above all of the Earth's major cities. The aliens, who become known as the Overlords, quickly communicate by radio, announcing benign intention and desire to help mankind. They quickly end the arms race and colonialism. They also arrange personal, though not face-to-face, meetings between Secretary General of the United Nations Rikki Stormgren and Karellen, the Overlord leader, albeit via one-way mirror, so that the earthman cannot see the extraterrestrial alien. Karellen has a special relationship with Stormgren, though short of traditional friendship. The Overlords promise to reveal themselves in fifty years, after which time mankind will have lost their prejudice, becoming comfortable with their presence. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» greatjob replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:24pm |
| Coolness: 282545 | Originally Posted By HOST_ONE
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:25pm |
| Coolness: 2604075 | Congratulations on quoting yourself... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:26pm |
| Coolness: 178735 | Space Odyssey is my favorite movie
Starchild FTW! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:30pm |
 Coolness: 158325 | Jordan last year. Then Pratchett gets Alzheimer's. Then Gygax. Then Clarke? WTF...
Leave my youth alone! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 9:07pm |
| Coolness: 178735 | note to self: next time, choose idols that are already dead so no more deceptions!!! ;) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Anarkoid replied on Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 9:58pm |
| Coolness: 192765 | I think I will put all the space odyssey novels in my pile of books to reread...there is just so many good things to read!!!! That guy was a genius |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JasonBeastly replied on Wed Mar 19, 2008 @ 2:06am |
 Coolness: 76800 | 2061 was disappointing, but I've always wanted to read Childhood's End. I think I might take the opportunity now.
It's ok Alex me know reading hurt brain. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Thu Mar 20, 2008 @ 10:53am |
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