I haven’t read any of his longer works but I’m a big fan of his short stories – when I first encountered them many years ago, they opened my eyes to the ways in which good science fiction can engage with our world more closely than laboured, fact-obsessed non-fiction.
Arthur C Clarke is no more. You may know him mostly as the inspiration behind 2001: A Space Odyssey but Jabberwock points to several Clarke short stories that are “good starting points for a reader new to Science Fiction.”
Update: Clarke spent much of his life in Sri Lanka. Amila Salgado describes a brief encounter with the legend.
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Gokul
Mar 19th, 2008 at 11:08 am | #
What do you mean by “The inspiration behind 2001: A Space Odyssey”? He wrote the novel. Or were you alluding to the movie of the same name?