Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dies
Arthur C. Clarke, a famous science fiction author died last Wednesday at age 90 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
A prolific writer, he was best known for “2001: A Space Odyssey,” a work written simultaneously as a novel and a screenplay with Stanley Kubrick.
Clarke also wrote a prophetic scientific paper on the concept of using communication satellites orbiting the earth, in 1945.
From space elevators in “3001: The Final Odyssey” to a practical means of colonizing distant star systems in “The Songs of Distant Earth,” Clarke continued to unleash innovative concepts throughout his lifetime.
His writings won him Nebula and Hugo science fiction awards, and he was selected to be a Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1986.
Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in 1956. He was married in 1953, and was divorced in 1964.
In a YouTube video released in December 2007, Clarke said he had ‘no regrets and no more personal ambitions’. He wished for evidence of extra-terrestrial life, for humans to start adapting clean energy sources and an end to the civil war in Sri Lanka. (Link)
Along with Isaac Asimov, Clarke was a giant among science fiction writers. He will be missed :-\
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