"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean."

[caladria]

Arthur C. Clarke, 16th December 1917 - 19th March 2008

According to the Asimov-Clarke Treaty of Park Avenue, the best science-fiction writer in the world, and the second best science writer.  As well as being the last of the Big Three (Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke) left.

It's kind of... gah.  Because as soon as I could reach the shelf where his books

Comments

[ireth_e]

It's a sad news. He was 90, but still- it's a sad news.

[caladria]

He did have a good run of life, but still.. end of an era, almost.

[little_giddy]

The SF world has lost a genius, and my reading life would never have been the same.

[caladria]

He was really the last link to the golden age of sci fi, and that's the reading that I loved when I was a kid. And he's gone.