Arthur C. Clarke, RIP
March 20, 2008 at 3:14 am
I can’t think of any other author who had a stronger influence on me than Arthur C. Clarke. His was some of the first science fiction I read and I still regularly return to some of his collections of short stories. I must have read “The Nine Billions Names of God” the first time when I was 9 or 10 years old. He was the master of the short story and could transport you to another world, another mindset, with just a few short lines of text and then totally re-arrange your thoughts with a single line.
“The stars started to wink out of existence one by one.”
He changed our lives in so many ways its impossible to count. Arthur, you will be missed.
On a somewhat lighter note:
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