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p2pnet news | Movies:- Sci-fi writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke, who rocketed to international fame with Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ and who wrote the original 2001 novel, is dead at the age of 90.
A physicist and mathematician, “Arthur C Clarke stood alongside Robert A Heinlein and Issac Asimov as one of the fathers of the science fiction genre,” says the Guardian, going on:
“But Clarke was also the author of at least forty non-fiction publications, covering deep space exploration, the communications revolution, fractal mathematics and a host of other subjects across the sciences, demonstrating a mind that was as flexible and imaginative as it was intellectually rigorous. He is often credited as having propagated the concept of geostationary satellites, without which modern global communications would be impossible. He also became a noted deep sea researcher, widely acclaimed for his work on the Great Barrier Reef. And whilst he may never have realised his dream to journey into space himself he was present alongside Walter Cronkite as a commentator on the Apollo moonlanding.”
He died at his home in Sri Lanka.
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Guardian - Arthur C Clarke, 1917-2008, March 19, 2008
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March 19th, 2008 at 11:44 am
A minute of silence… I
March 20th, 2008 at 5:59 am
If he was not a pedophile (Google it !) then why did he not sue the mirror into the ground for libel ? Personally I think Ian Banks is a better Sci Fi write.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Now we only have to wait another 50 years in Canada for his authored works to enter into the public domain.
In other countries it is 75 years…
Antiquated Copyright law has been morbidly written such that there is a silver lining (the start of the critically important cultural recycling clock) at the death of an author.