Bye bye Aurther C. We're going to miss you.

Author Arthur C. Clarke dies

I have always been a fan of his books, in fact I just finished reading Firstborn, the third book in the Time Odyssey series he was writing with Stephen Baxter.

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Anonymous said…
The Passing of One of My Heroes: Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction Author

Least us not forget the influence Sir Arthur C. Clarke had on the late movie director Stanley Kurbick. The 1968 premier of 2001: A Space Odyssey was (and still is) the most authentic space themed science fiction film. Heck, both the US and the Soviet Union built non-commercial versions of the winged Pan Am shuttle seen in the film. Sadly, the other infrastructure - the Hilton space station, the Clavius moon base and the Discovery interplanetary spaceship were lost to other distractions.

My daughter, a chemical engineering undergrad next fall, has no aspiration to create off-earth human civilizations. What a pity. If humanity doesn't devolve into an energy scarce late 19th century level of global poverty, then it will likely be the ascendant Asians who will nourish the seeds of a Pan-Solar human culture. There are enough accessible resources in our Solar system to create a multitude of artificial worldlets collectively holding over 50 Trillion upper class lifestyle citizens during this millennium.

Thanks, Sir Arthur for your extrapolation of what is the best of "science" in fiction.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
— Sir Arthur C. Clarke