Arthur C Clarke RIP

[matt]

Bummer (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm)

Incredibly inventive writer and still unbelivable that some of his stuff was written over 50 years ago and fairly accurately described future inventions

RIP :(

[m.g.]

:(

What a day! 1st Anthony Minghella and now Arthur C. Clarke... I'm just speechless.

[cacophony]

i'm reading "rendezvous with rama" for the first time right now and it's a really incredible read. the man was a genius.

[Deckard]

Damn damn damn.

He was on my list of people I never wanted to die. :(

[m.g.]

i'm reading "rendezvous with rama"Rendez-vous With Rama is a fantastic book.

[Deckard]

For anyone whose interested, here's a video Clarke made on his 90th birthday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qLdeEjdbWE

Some interesting reflections.

[oceanic]

Since I read "Childhood's End" in highschool I've been tuned into his awesome concepts. Bummer.

[froopy seal]

How great a visionary he was! I became an addict through "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke". "Rendezvous with Rama" is a masterpiece of realistic science-fiction. Next on my reading list are "2010", "2061" and "3001".