My god, it's full of stars

DaBeast on 18/3/2008 at 23:29

Arthur C Clarke, the daddy of sci fi stuff is dead at the age of 90 :(

Lived to a ripe of old age though.

(will change topic to someone better if advised)

suliman on 18/3/2008 at 23:42

Oh jesus fucking christ. Childhood's End is one of my favorite sci-fi books(hell, one of my favorite books, period), and I just started reading The City and the Stars a few days ago.

Now Ray Bradbury is all that's left:(

dj_ivocha on 18/3/2008 at 23:43

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXQ7rNgWwg) Sir Arthur C. Clarke 90th Birthday reflections :)

Shadow Creepr on 18/3/2008 at 23:47

I just saw (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm) the news article. One of the best Sci-Fi writers of our time. I didn't realise that he had been a radar specialist. RIP :(

Quote Posted by DaBeast

My god it's full of stars

After your third thread title change you've settled one the one I would have picked. Well, that or 'His Odyssey has ended'.

jstnomega on 19/3/2008 at 00:53

A man forever ahead of his time. I mean, it's still the 18th here in my time zone.

BEAR on 19/3/2008 at 02:00

I was going to say 2008: The Final Odyssey but yours is ok too.

I never read anything by Clark that I didn't like, and I can honestly say his writing impacted the way I view the world.

In before the literature fags shut us down.

Spaztick on 19/3/2008 at 02:04

I'm sorry, I can't let you do that.

Tocky on 19/3/2008 at 02:44

Quote Posted by suliman

Now Ray Bradbury is all that's left:(

You just had to say it and jinx him didn't you?

But yes, so few left. Everytime one of them dies it's like another nail in the coffin of my childhood. I was checking out a site and it just saddened me over how many of his stories I had read. Somehow over the years SF has been replaced by so much fantasy dross. Whatever happened to The Years Best SF Anthology? Why am I so old? I'm going to go beat a 20 year old to make things right again.

Rug Burn Junky on 19/3/2008 at 02:45

I'm shocked.

I mean: Arthur C. Clarke wasn't dead already? Color me surprised.

Shakey-Lo on 19/3/2008 at 05:03

i heard this over the radio at uni today and it genuinely made me sad, which doesn't happen a lot with celebrity deaths. i'm not much of a reader, but 2001 is my favourite film of all time and I have read the book.
now I guess I will have to be one of "those guys" who only checks out an artist's oeuvre now they're dead.