Arthur C Clark dead at age 90

[lux_aeturna]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/18/obit.clarke/index.html

Rest in peace. I always thought your fiction trumped the crap out of Heinlein's.

<3 <- As for your non-fiction, you and Asimov. Right here.

Comments

[ranthog]

Asimov, Clark, Sagan, Herbert, et al. are all wonderful wonderful authors. It is a shame so many of the true greats of science fiction are no longer with us. Clark is one of my favorite authors ever.

[sillysuperchimp]

I never thought Arthur C Clark was outstanding as a writer. He was did do an awesome job on the futurist part of sci-fi. And "Childhood's End" was pretty good (Don't read the wikipedia entry for it, it's spoiler-rific)

But I kinda like Heinlein for some reason, even though he's written some really shitty stuff. For example "Time Enough for Love" would have been all time classic, except he decided to make one of the themes in the book "Would this really bizarre situation count as incest?", the most straightforward one was 'if you lived for a few thousand years, there would be enough genetic divergence that you could have sex with your ancestors and it's not really incest'. But that's the last thing I'll read written by him. (Unless I'm in a fallout shelter and there's not any other good books to read)

Authur C Clark on the other hand hasn't published anything that is outright shitty.

Over all Asimov has them both beat...despite some of his stuff being pretty dated.

[syonyk]

I liked the fact that Clarke's sci-fi tended to be a bit "harder" - more tech, more solid science in it.

*should go read some of his stuff in memory*

-=Russ=-

[lion81]

Arthur C. Clarke is The Best Ever of Sci-Fi... and a lover of Sri Lanka, to boot. My idol twice over. May your next life be as inspiring as your last.

Read the Space Odyssey series (2001, 2010, 2061, 3001)...
then the Rama series (Rendezvous, II, Garden, Revealed)...
then read Earthlight for some space wars...
then you might be ready for The Songs of Distant Earth...
then, finally, tackle Childhood's End.

If you want something more recent, The Light of Other Days with Stephen Baxter tackles more modern scifi issues.

Yeah, it's Clarke, you posers.