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Arthur C Clarke

March 19th, 2008 · 6 Comments

Has died.

If you’ve not read any of his stuff, leave aside the sci-fi and try out "Tales From The White Hart". A lovely collection of tall tales and shaggy dog stories.

Tags: Books

6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Mark Wadsworth // Mar 19, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    Did you know he invented MMORGs?

  • 2 Martin // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    ‘Tales from the White Hart’ showed Clarke to be the best kind of intellectual - forever name-checking his heroes.

  • 3 chris strange // Mar 19, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    Or if you want to know what makes him so important as more that a very good novelist try
    “how I lost a billion dollars in my spare time”

  • 4 ZT // Mar 19, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    For more insight into Clarke’s life read “Glide Path”, a lightly fictionalized memoir of his involvement in the development of the GCA aircraft landing system during WWII.

  • 5 Jim Winfield // Mar 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

    Less rounded as a writer than Asimov, some of the books tended to be repetitive. But I was introduced to sci-fi by Clarke. I spent a gripping Christmas Day reading 2001, consciously hoping that nobody would disturb me.
    The film 2001 is on my shelf now, and I still watch it from time to time.

  • 6 Martin // Mar 20, 2008 at 5:01 pm

    Tim,

    Incidentally, if I were you I would re-read ‘The Man Who Ploughed The Sea’.

    Might be helpful in the day job.

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