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Arthur C Clarke died today.
The first science fiction book my father ever read was Clarke's "Childhood's End" (and when I read it, I remember asking him "and you kept reading it?", cause it freaked me out a bit). My love of science fiction and fantasy has been greatly due to my dad, and Clarke was part of that.
And not just his novels, like Rendezvous with Rama, or his short fiction (The Star is still one of my all time favourite short stories, and one of the most powerful too), but his essays as well. If you've never read Voices from the Sky or Profiles of the Future, I recommend them. He was a visionary.
"Unreason is always a menace...And there is, unfortunately, no reliable cure for it; you cannot buy sanity at the drugstore...The only answer lies in education, and that is merely a palliative, not a panacea, for a college degree is no guarantee of wisdom, as anyone who has ever been near a campus will testify." - Lunatic Fringe (in Voices from the Sky) - Arthur C Clarke.
The first science fiction book my father ever read was Clarke's "Childhood's End" (and when I read it, I remember asking him "and you kept reading it?", cause it freaked me out a bit). My love of science fiction and fantasy has been greatly due to my dad, and Clarke was part of that.
And not just his novels, like Rendezvous with Rama, or his short fiction (The Star is still one of my all time favourite short stories, and one of the most powerful too), but his essays as well. If you've never read Voices from the Sky or Profiles of the Future, I recommend them. He was a visionary.
"Unreason is always a menace...And there is, unfortunately, no reliable cure for it; you cannot buy sanity at the drugstore...The only answer lies in education, and that is merely a palliative, not a panacea, for a college degree is no guarantee of wisdom, as anyone who has ever been near a campus will testify." - Lunatic Fringe (in Voices from the Sky) - Arthur C Clarke.
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