James Barclay

Parmenion · Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 584

Sir Arthur C. Clarke Dies
Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the epic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, died Wednesday at age 90, an associate confirmed. Clarke died early Wednesday at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. "He had been taken to hospital in what we had hoped was one of the slings and arrows of being 90, but in this case it was his final visit," Chase said. Clarke wrote around 100 books and hundreds of short stories

skandranon · Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 147 Location: north east England

That is sad news .
I remember a tv show he fronted i think in the early eighties about strange phenomenon, he had me hooked from then on.

TheJovialGnome · Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 295 Location: Boston

Always sad to see a passing such as this but you have to say he had a good innings!

Read an awful lot of his stuff in my sci-fi phase in my early twenties and seem to remember enjoying most of it!
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Wulfa_Coldheart · Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 97 Location: United Kingdom

I don't want to sound nasty, but I thought he was already dead.

I've never been a big reader of sci-fi, but respected Clarke for this work in the field. He really was one of the forefathers of sci-fi and whilst I've never read any of his work, I know he has had a great effect on many creative people who have gone on to produce some great Sci-fi films and shows.
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