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Saw on CNN.com that Arthur C. Clarke has passed away at the age of 90.
I still remember reading Childhood's End in high school.
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Just got the e-mail news alert on the way home. I recorded 2001 in HD just three days ago since I hadn't seen it in so long and remarked how great it was he was still around and so active. One of the greatest Grand Masters.
R.I.P.
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An excellent obit at Ars Technica .
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One of my favorite authors. I was surprised to discover he was still alive.
R.I.P.
"Hey Jim! Get Mon out of the Zone!! And...when do we get Condo back?"
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While I knew this was coming for some time, I am somehow still left saddened. Clarke was such a creative person, I guess I half-expected him to find a way to coat his body in breathing diamond and live forever, or something.
I caught a little of his obit on NPR this morning, and whomever was speaking captured Clarke perfectly: he was able to translate into language and images that moment of transcendent wonder when you realize who how extraordinaty the universe is. He couldn't have done that unless he knew felt it himself.
That transcendent awe at the splendor of nature is probably the only thing that has kept me sane over the years. I know that, reading Clarke's novels and stories as a kid, that sense of wonder gave me hope and direction to keep moving forward, while at the same time more fully appreciating where I was at the time.
And Ronda, was Childhood's End not the most freaky, mind-blowing thing you've ever read? What an amazing vision it must have been in the 1950s, and still is today.
...but you don't have a moment where you're sitting there staring at a table full of twenty-five characters with little name signs that say, "Hi, my superpower is confusing you!"
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Childhood's end was probably my favorite of his works. I was definitely blown away by the revelation of humanity's fate.
I think he believed that one day humans would find out that we're not alone and knew that in that one instant humans would see the bigger picture that all our petty little squabbles were the fights kids have in the school yard.
I also remember that I first found out where Columbo Sri Lanka was on a map because that's where he resided.
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Clarke was so disenchanted from the experience of collaborating with Stanley Kubrick (who kept changing his mind all the time), he swore he'd never work on another movie... unless he could do it without leaving home. he was able to do just that with Peter Hyams on 2010, even though the Internet as we know it was still some years away! How's that for being on the cutting edge of technology?
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