Arthur C. Clarke's Passing

[beller]

CNN is reporting that noted writer and Amiga user Arthur C. Clarke has passed.  Here's the blurb from CNN:

'2001' author Arthur C. Clarke dies at age of 90
Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the epic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, has died at age 90, an associate confirmed to CNN. Clark died at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s.

[cecilia]

At a 90th birthday party thrown for Clarke in December, the author said he had three wishes: for Sri Lanka's raging civil war to end, for the world to embrace cleaner sources of energy and for evidence of extraterrestrial beings to be discovered.

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[TDScompute]

First Gary Gygax, now Arthur C. Clarke...

Truly a sad month for we nerds everywhere...  :lol:

[Bonami]

'The grand master of scifi warned Stanley Kubrick: "If you get Vistapro into your computer, you'll never do any more work! It produces images of almost photographic quality.... So i can explore all the interesting places on Mars!" '
I guess Arthur was once a fan of Amiga too, was he not?
May he R.I.P.

[Khephren]

Arthur was a well known Amiga fan back in the day, or at least a fan of some of the software. I remember the magazines mentioning it.

[Piru]

He was an early email adopter, too. IIRC he started to use it in the early 80s.

[Argus]

What is it about Sri Lanka that attracts geniuses?  I remember watching an ex-Commodore reunion last year with Chuck Peddle transmitting from somewhere in Sri Lanka back to Dave Haynie and other Commodore guys back in the U.S.

[cecilia]

Bonami wrote:
'The grand master of scifi warned Stanley Kubrick: "If you get Vistapro into your computer, you'll never do any more work! It produces images of almost photographic quality.... So i can explore all the interesting places on Mars!" '
I guess Arthur was once a fan of Amiga too, was he not?
May he R.I.P.

he published a book with some images he had made of Mars using VistaPro

yes, he was a huge fan of Amiga

[persia]

Sad he only lived to see two of the three.

[onkelarie]

Earth has lost a genius... What a respectable age btw...

R.I.P.

[swift240]

He has gone to that great monolith in the sky.

RIP.


Mike.

[Giana]

Have a good trip Arthur ! I'm sure you have now full answers to your questions.
You made me dream with all that fabulous books...

Hey guys, I recommand the CD "Songs of the distant earth" composed by Mike Oldfield, putting in music the novel with the same name (from ACC).

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Giana wrote:
Hey guys, I recommand the CD "Songs of the distant earth" composed by Mike Oldfield, putting in music the novel with the same name (from ACC).

I really loved that book... One of my favs...

[Gavilan]

Isaac Asimov
Philip P. Dick
Now Arthur Clarke...

Thank you VERY VERY much...for many, many hours of amusement...

RIP

 :-(

[persia]

Douglas Adams, too.

:bigcry:

And Francisco Franco is still dead...