MetaChat - Arthur C. Clarke is dead at age 90.

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19 March 2008

Arthur C. Clarke is dead at age 90. "any form of censorship has become utterly impossible. There's simply no way of enforcing it; the customer can get what he wants right in his own home. Lock the door, switch on the TV set -- friends and family will never know."→[More:] He was no Ray Bradbury but still, he holds up better than much of the Golden Age.

post by: arse_hat at: 02:24 | 5 comments

Sad, but the rumours of Clarkes predilictions always squicked me out, so not that sad.

posted by seanyboy 19 March | 03:01

I heard this on the news today morning, I wonder if they've got a memorial thread already up on Mefi?

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posted by hadjiboy 19 March | 03:24

hadjiboy: Yes.

posted by Daniel Charms 19 March | 07:24

Even though he was my introduction to SF and thereby got me my "adult" library card way before I would otherwise have, I'm with seanyboy on this. Perhaps we'll see the truth come out now, or perhaps the opposite. And while he was no Bradbury; Bradbury was no Clarke. It's a bit like saying Lichtenstein was no Picasso.

Or something.

posted by GeckoDundee 19 March | 07:48

His 90th birthday message on YouTube.

posted by TheophileEscargot 19 March | 08:11

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