Enemy of Entropy

R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke

18 March 2008, 7:45 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Movies, News.

We lost another great writer and thinker today. CNN seems to be updat­ing their story on his death by the minute. There’s no con­tro­versy, but from the first ver­sion or two you’d think the only thing the man had ever done of note was co-​​write the screen­play for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I know that he came up with more than just the idea of com­mu­ni­ca­tions satel­lites, but at this very moment I can’t remem­ber his other non-​​fiction con­tri­bu­tions to the world. I’m sad, but 90 years is a good, long run.

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  1. avatar lceel. 18 March 2008, 11:07 pm

    One of my all-​​time favorite sci­ence fic­tion books was ‘Ren­dezvous With Rama’ and the fol­low on books. We have lost a giant mind.

 

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