Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Rest peacefully Arthur C. Clarke

1917-2008

Some thoughts from Sir Arthur on his 90th Birthday.



His book, "City and the Stars", was the first sci-fi book I ever read. Dad had belonged to a science fiction book club in the 50's and I found sacks of them in the attic. Heinlein, Asimov, Zelazny, Simak . . . robots, aliens, far away planets . . . much better than anything I had read before.

Clarke's books always seemed . . . hopeful. In the above youtube, one of his wishes was that he would find evidence of extra terrestrial life.

Tell 'em hey for us Arthur.

-Prodigal Son

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