Arthur C Clarke - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Arthur C Clarke, science fiction author and inspiration to many makers just passed away -
British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. Born in Somerset, he came to fame in 1968 when a short story The Sentinel was made into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey by director Stanley Kubrick. Once called "the first dweller in the electronic cottage", his vision of future space travel and computing captured the popular imagination.
Posted by: Gareth Branwyn on March 18, 2008 at 7:19 PM
I can't begin to estimate how huge the impact on me was of folks like Arthur C. Clarke (and Asimov and Heinlein and Bradbury). I talk readily about rock and roll and how it was a lifeline to me as a restless, tortured teen, but sci-fi was just as important. And man, 2001, the movie, the book, the original stories that inspired the movie/book. I'm still in awe. And he and Asimov: the fact that they were such generalists and wrote and were interested in all sorts of things -- that was a huge inspiration to me.
I hope he's now being watched over by machines of loving grace...
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A sad day. Clarke was a great light in the universe.
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I can't begin to estimate how huge the impact on me was of folks like Arthur C. Clarke (and Asimov and Heinlein and Bradbury). I talk readily about rock and roll and how it was a lifeline to me as a restless, tortured teen, but sci-fi was just as important. And man, 2001, the movie, the book, the original stories that inspired the movie/book. I'm still in awe. And he and Asimov: the fact that they were such generalists and wrote and were interested in all sorts of things -- that was a huge inspiration to me.
I hope he's now being watched over by machines of loving grace...
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The heir to Verne and Wells has left us. A sad, sad day indeed.
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