Arthur C. Clarke (1918-2008)

[mmcirvin]

I don't have much to say except that this feels like the final passing of an age.

...Bradbury still lives. But he was always a bit apart from the core group in sensibility.

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[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...And others point out that Fred Pohl is actually from the same generation. Even though I saw him at the Boston Worldcon, I always think of him as a younger writer, because he wrote his most brilliant novels in the 1970s and they were very much of the age.

[nexstarman.livejournal.com]

But Bradbury will live forever!

At least they didn't make a movie of 3001!

[timchuma.livejournal.com]

Lots of footage from 2001 A Space Odyssey on the news tonight.

Ray Bradbury would be disappointed that WWIII has not happened yet as he was always on a downer in his work.

[acw.livejournal.com]

Amazing; I just had occasion to check his Wikipedia entry this morning, I forget why, and Wikipedia and I both thought he was alive. As soon as I read your post, I went back, and of course they were on top of it.

I've been thinking for a long time (morbidly, but the man was old) that a fitting memorial might be to rename the ISS in his honor. "Arthur C. Clarke Memorial Station" has a good ring to it. But maybe we should wait for a better station to bestow the honor on than that pathetic bunch of tin cans.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

pompe might have something to say about that suggestion. But the band of living and dead satellites in geosynchronous orbit is sometimes called the Clarke Belt.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Well, I for one would like to know his secret for longevity, that's a pretty darn good run.