RIP Arthur C Clarke

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A friend just informed me about the death of Arthur C. Clarke (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfE8qUikNEG6MVWqYku2k8BD_RcgD8VG4VI00). I’m sad to hear we’ve lost another grandmaster of SF. I still remember laying in bed in the basement of my grandmother’s vacation house one summer, ignoring my family’s entreaties to go to the beach or interact with them so that I could finish Childhood’s End. Even more I remember how shaken I was when I finished; the book has stayed with me ever since. Reading that book truly drove home to me the power of SF; I think it helped me really understand what these books can do to a reader.
And I just found The Nine Billion Names of God (http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/9billion_clarke.html) online, for your enjoyment.

(Originally posted at Words Words Words (http://dreamcafe.com/words/2008/03/18/rip-arthur-c-clarke/) by kit. Please leave any comments (http://dreamcafe.com/words/2008/03/18/rip-arthur-c-clarke/#comments) there.)


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