Comments on: 5 Reasons We’ll Miss Arthur C. Clarke

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:58:25 +0000

I loved how many of Clark’s stories were themed around the origins of humanity and it’s transformation to wear its headed. Clark’s and Baxter’s The Light of Other Days was my favorite.

By: tasmanian devil

tasmanian devil — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:12:14 +0000

The litle boys of Thailand won’t miss him.

By: kari

kari — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:54:55 +0000

thanks for the post. as a child, i read everything starting with ‘nemesis’ in the early 80′s

By: Badfrog

Badfrog — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:22:16 +0000

David Weber writes really good space opera with great characters. His main work is the Honor Harrington cycle, but I have yet to read a bad line from him. John Varley writes excellent nuts ‘n bolts sf with, again, great characters. His short story collection, “The Persistence of Vision” is the place to start as everything else builds from there. He goes to some unique places.

Anybody else?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:22:34 +0000

I hear you, Doc. It seems like only the poet laureate, Bradbury, remains. Somehow we lost the ability to imagine what the future might be like and have descended into the realm of wishful thinking. I think that our culture now is too cynical to produce authors with such unbridled enthusiasm for what humanity might one day accomplish.

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By: Kaiti

Kaiti — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:19:22 +0000

Rich, I am jealous.

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:14:19 +0000

In 1983, my family moved from NJ to Colombo, Sri Lanka for 18 months. Our neighbor was a kind, soft-spoken, British-born author who needed my father to teach him how to use his Kaypro PC and modem to communicate with Hollywood on changes to the script for “2010″. As a 12-year-old, I got to spend many hours in his study playing games on his various computers as my father fought the urge not to ask him a million questions about the science fiction classics he grew up reading. Thank you, Arthur, for being such a good friend and neighbor to us. We’ll miss you.

By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:49:11 +0000

“And overhead, the stars, one by one, were quietly going out…”

I may have missed the quote a bit, but the sentiment is there.

Clarke, Heinlein, Herbert, Zelazny, Tolkein – the Ghods of my childhood and wasted youth… all gone.

I don’t read science fiction or fantasy anymore. The current crop of writers mostly rehash others’ concepts. I know there must be creative minds out there that are equal to the Fathers, but I’ve not encountered them. Help, anyone?