Arthur C. Clarke dead

[BlueBird]

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/347466]Associated

"COLOMBO, Sri Lanka–Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.

Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair, died at 1:30 a.m. after suffering breathing problems, aide Rohan De Silva said.

Clarke moved to Sri Lanka in 1956, lured by his interest in marine diving which he said was as close as he could get to the weightless feeling of space.

"I'm perfectly operational underwater," he once said.

Co-author with Stanley Kubrick of Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey – a movie based on Clarke's 1968 novel of the same name – Clarke was regarded as far more than a science fiction writer.

He was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to the ground, are called Clarke orbits.

He joined American broadcaster Walter Cronkite as commentator on the U.S. Apollo moonshots in the late 1960s."

RIP

 

[samoth]

I recognize the name, but don't know if I've read anything of his.

 

[BlueBird]

From wikipedia:

Novels

Prelude to Space (1951)
The Sands of Mars (1951)
Islands in the Sky (1952)
Against the Fall of Night (1953)
Childhood's End (1953)
Earthlight (1955)
The City and the Stars (1956)
The Deep Range (1957)
A Fall of Moondust (1961)
Dolphin Island (1963)
Glide Path (1963)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Rendezvous with Rama (1972)
Imperial Earth (1975)
The Fountains of Paradise (1979)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982)
The Songs of Distant Earth (1986)
2061: Odyssey Three (1988)
A Meeting with Medusa (1988)
Cradle (1988) (with Gentry Lee)
Rama II (1989) (with Gentry Lee)
Beyond the Fall of Night (1990) (with Gregory Benford)
The Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990)
The Garden of Rama (1991) (with Gentry Lee)
Rama Revealed (1993) (with Gentry Lee)
The Hammer of God (1993)
Richter 10 (1996) (with Mike McQuay)
3001: The Final Odyssey (1997)
The Trigger (1999) (with Michael P. Kube-McDowell)
The Light of Other Days (2000) (with Stephen Baxter)
Time's Eye (2003) (with Stephen Baxter)
Sunstorm (2005) (with Stephen Baxter)
Firstborn (2007) (with Stephen Baxter)


Across the Sea of Stars (1959) (including Childhood's End, Earthlight and 18 short stories)
From the Ocean, From the Stars (1962) (including The City and the Stars, The Deep Range and The Other Side of the Sky)
An Arthur C. Clarke Omnibus (1965) (including Childhood's End, Prelude to Space and Expedition to Earth)
Prelude to Mars (1965) (including Prelude to Space and The Sands of Mars)
The Lion of Comarre & Against the Fall of Night (1968)
An Arthur C. Clarke Second Omnibus (1968) (including A Fall of Moondust, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars)
Four Great SF Novels (1978) (including The City and the Stars, The Deep Range, A Fall of Moondust, Rendezvous with Rama)
The Space Trilogy (2001) (including Islands in the Sky, Earthlight and The Sands of Mars)

Against the Fall of Night in Startling Stories.


Short story collections
Expedition to Earth (1953)
Reach for Tomorrow (1956)
Tales from the White Hart (1957)
The Other Side of the Sky (1958)
Tales of Ten Worlds (1962)
The Nine Billion Names of God (1967)
Of Time and Stars (1972)
The Wind from the Sun (1972)
The Best of Arthur C. Clarke (1973)
The Sentinel (1983)
Tales From Planet Earth (1990)
More Than One Universe (1991)
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (2000)

Non-fiction
Interplanetary Flight; an introduction to astronautics. London: Temple Press, 1950
The Exploration of Space. New York: Harper, 1951
The Coast of Coral. New York: Harper, 1957 — Volume 1 of the Blue planet trilogy
The Reefs of Taprobane; Underwater Adventures around Ceylon. New York: Harper, 1957 — Volume 2 of the Blue planet trilogy
The Making of a Moon: the Story of the Earth Satellite Program. New York: Harper, 1957
Boy beneath the sea, Photos by Mike Wilson. Text by Arthur C. Clarke. New York: Harper, 1958
The Challenge of the Space Ship: Previews of Tomorrow’s World. New York: Harper, 1959
The Challenge of the Sea. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960
Profiles of the Future; an Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible. New York: Harper & Row, 1962
The Treasure of the Great Reef. New York: Harper & Row, 1964 — Volume 3 of the Blue planet trilogy
Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age. New York: Harper & Row, 1965
The Promise of Space. New York: Harper, 1968
Into Space: a Young Person’s Guide to Space, by Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Silverberg. New York: Harper & Row, 1971
Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations. New York: Harper & Row, 1972
The Lost Worlds of 2001. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1972
Voice Across the Sea. HarperCollins, 1975
The View from Serendip. Random House, 1977
The Odyssey File. Email correspondence with Peter Hyams. London: Panther Books, 1984
1984, Spring: a Choice of Futures. New York: BallantIne Books, 1984
Ascent to Orbit, a Scientific Autobiography: The Technical Writings of Arthur C. Clarke. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984
Astounding Days: A Science Fictional Autobiography. London: Gollancz, 1989
How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village. New York : Bantam Books, 1992 — A history and survey of the communications revolution
By Space Possessed. London: Gollancz, 1993
The Snows of Olympus - A Garden on Mars (1994, picture album with comments)
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, 1995, St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-15119-5 (Online Version)
Fractals: The Colors of Infinity (1997, narrator)
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! : Collected Works 1934-1988. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999
From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Letters Between Arthur C. Clarke and C. S. Lewis (2003) with C. S. Lewis
The Coming of the Space Age; famous accounts of man's probing of the universe, selected and edited by Arthur C. Clarke.

 

[samoth]

Man, I don't think I've read any of those. That's pretty bad.

 

[BlueBird]

Imma hafta do some cow-tipping.

 

[Yarg!]

RIp

ive taken 3 astronomy courses as part of my science electives. certainly makes u feel small and insignificant.

 

[samoth]

Imma hafta do some cow-tipping.

I was never too into fiction.

I'm interested in the fractals-color analogy, though. Not sure what he means there.

 

[75th]

Rendezvous with Rama is one of the best, if not the best, science fiction book ever written.

Thats a shame.

 

[anthrax]

RIP A.C. Clarke

He wrote some of the best scifi books ever and inspired multiple movies

 

[JayC9]

rip
the man was an enigma
a poet, a free thinker
and had an amazing sense of humour
90 is a good innings