Sir Arthur C. Clarke has passed away - possibly the greatest sci fi author of his generation (Mar/18/2008 )

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/...arke/index.html

Arthur C Clarke -
British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name... has passed away.

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"Life is just one big banana. Science fiction allows us all to peel open the reality and discover the yellow truth inside." - Arthur C Clarke



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Thought he'd dead since a long time. 91 is a good age.

"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. " (fits good in this forum, anyway )