He appeared to have some issues in real life - but his fiction filled me with hope.
One hell of a ride.
He appeared to have some issues in real life - but his fiction filled me with hope.
Sir Cumference
Sad news.
He was a true visionary.
Can I believe the magic of your size... (The Shirelles)
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Fiction tends to do that.Originally Posted by Big Dave
One hell of a ride.
Hmmmm - You reckon?
CSI Sunday and Heinlein sure don't.
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Hell yes - you never read the Viagra spam? I should be about 48" long, three feet thick and pumping out 3 or 4 litres of cum each round!
Shame about Arthur though. I like big thinkers. He was certainly one of them
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Yeah, what was that really famous quote of his?
"Screwing boys of a technologically inferior culture is real magic".
Measure once, cut twice. Practice makes perfect.
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+1. Read all of his works. Childhoods End and the first Rama book raised hairs on my neck. Brilliant writer, brilliant scientist.
ArseBiscuit
mysterious world......
Soft & Squishy core Biker
Be interesting to see what surfaces now he's dead.
The Mirror (which published the original claims of pedaphilia), eventually retracted the article, and Sri Lankan police found no evidence to charge him.
Obviously he always fervently denied the allegations.
...and I don't wanna die, just want to ride my motorcy...cle (Arlo Guthrie)
Freakin' hippy
Oh wow, Dead! He was a legend.
He was the first guy to come up with the idea of the Geosynchronous satellite, and if he had patented the idea he'd now be a multi-billionaire. But he didn't think of patenting it, it just didn't occur to him.
His fiction was awesome, but a bit old-school now.
Determined to kill my bike before it kills me
One hell of a ride.
Not so. The Hollywood interpretations have dated - not so the written word.
He founded the School.
eschew obsification...
"The Nine Billion Names of God" - practically my intro to the genre ...... the fluidity of the writing still lives with me
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Grass wedges its way between the closest blocks of marble and it brings them down. This power of feeble life which can creep in anywhere is greater than that of the mighty behind their cannons....... - Honore de Balzac
One hell of a ride.
My fave is 'The City and The Stars'.
Freakin' hippy
Yes, but... his style was quite plain prose, quite unexciting stylistically. If we compare his writing to today's top sci-fi authors, they are far more skilled writers and stylists. Sure he had the mind-blowing ideas, but he couldn't keep up these days.
And there's a depth of world-building in some of the top sci-fi today that Clarke never reached.
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Which still reads damn well IMO. I find Asimov old school, but somehow Clarke avoided that. I think his characterisations had a bit more depth than a lot of his peers.
The Rama books were great because they were about people. The Sci-Fi was the sound stage so to speak.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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