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Arthur C Clarke dies at age 90 [Update]

Gee whiz, this is certainly sad news for an old Clarke fan like me:
/-- Science fiction author Arthur C Clarke dies aged 90 - Times Online
/-- Sci-fi guru Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90: Longtime Sri Lanka resident wrote more than 100 books, including "2001" - msnbc.com
/-- Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at Age of 90 - AP/SPACE.com
/-- Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90 - BBC
/-- Obituary: Sir Arthur C Clarke - BBC

More info at:
/-- The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation
/-- Arthur C. Clarke - Wikipedia
/-- Arthur C. Clarke

[Update: An additional sampling of blog postings and articles:
/-- Arthur C. Clarke Has Died - Instapundit.com
/-- Arthur C. Clarke: requiescat intra astra - And Still I Persist
/-- The Last Of The Giants - Transterrestrial Musings
/-- Remembering Arthur C. Clarke - Peter Kokh at The Moon Society Blog
/-- Arthur C. Clarke: 1917-2008 - Astroprof’s Page
/-- Arthur C. Clarke: The Wired Words - Wired.com
/-- Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Science Fiction Writer, Dies - New York Times
]

[Update March 19.08: Some more blog commentary:
/-- Sir Arthur C. Clarke, RIP - Jerry Pournelle
/-- Remembering Arthur C. Clarke - John Derbyshire - National Review Online
/-- Dear Friends, Earthlings, Extraterrestrials (as Arthur would often say)… - Peter Diamandis - X PRIZE
/-- Clarke, Space, and Science Fiction - Will Pomerantz - X PRIZE
]

[Update again: Yet more commentary plus a recent interview:
/-- Space Visionary - Transterrestrial Musings
/-- Arthur C. Clarke: An Appreciation of a Life Well-Lived - by Jeff VanderMeer
/-- Final Thoughts from Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) - IEEE Spectrum:
/-- IEEE Spectrum podcast of the interview
/-- IEEE Spectrum: Audio Transcript: Interview with Arthur C. Clarke
]

[Final update:
/-- Arthur C. Clarke's DNA odyssey - by Alan Boyle - Cosmic Log/msnbc.com
/-- Sundown With Arthur: Remembering Arthur C. Clarke - By Jeff Greenwald- Wired
/-- RIP Arthur C. Clarke - Mark Whittington
/-- Arthur C. Clarke: Artists Elegize an Icon - Wired
/-- Arthur C. Clarke: Luminaries Pay Tribute - SPACE.com
]

Comments

I once spent two days with Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and Harlan Ellison. I was a fly-on-the-wall production assistant, and Clarke was warm and cool all at the same time. Why don't current sci-fi writers deal with projective tech issues like he did?

Posted by Thom at 03/19/08 12:53:11

I have a new post up.

Posted by Rand Simberg at 03/19/08 13:13:03
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