The BBC is reporting that the British born science fiction writer Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. In 1945 Clarke proposed the use of satellites in geosynchronous orbit for telecommunications relays and thus is credited with inventing the concept of the communication satellite.

RIP Sir Arthur.

RIP.

"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."
Maelstrom II (1965) - Arthur C Clarke.

Rest In Peace, Sir Arthur. You will be missed.

A link to the BBC News article about the death of Sir Arthur C. Clarke can be found HERE.

The BBC's obituary of this colossus amongst science fiction authors can be found HERE.

Clarke will be remembered by sci-fi fans everywhere.

RIP one of the greatest scifi authors of all time.

Ditto.

RIP Sir Arthur, I shall miss you deeply.

Nooooooooooooo

A bit of my Kittenhood just died. I remember Rendevouz with Rama, and how it opened my reading horizons...

Well.... Mr. C. has a rendevouz of his own. Bon Voyage...

Two Thousand and one
You wrote, but delayed untill
two thousand and eight.

Meow Purr

Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the epic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, died Wednesday at age 90, an associate confirmed. Clarke died early Wednesday at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. "He had been taken to hospital in what we had hoped was one of the slings and arrows of being 90, but in this case it was his final visit," Chase said.

http://www.arthurcclarke.net/

Didn't see this one cat...

Sad, sad news indeed.

I was just reading about this on MSN new's, It's very sad indeed..

RIP..

One of the authors who took me through high school. He will be missed.

A sad day indeed, 'Childhood's End' started me on my journey into devouring science fiction literature.

RIP Sir Arthur

Not good news, he will be missed

I can't remember which of his novels or short stories I first read, but his books are part of the reason I have such a fascination (along with my earliest memory being Neil Armstrong walking on the Moon) with astronomy and spaceflight. As such, this man that I never met, helped shape my life.

I found the rama books in my grandpa's study when I was about 12, zipped through all of them in a matter of months - I think they were the first "grown up" books I ever read....

Once opon a time there was a little disabled kid who got to meet one of his science HERO,S he never forgot that day and he never ever will

"Good night sweet prince"
"may the wings of angels take you to your sleep"

R.I.P

I just knew you read alot...
Your astuteness and rational skills reveal that. To be reading Sir Arthur's Rama books at age 12, and zipping through them in a matter of months says alot...a lot.

The press release is reproduced below:

Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov


RELEASE: 08-083

NASA Statement on the Death of Arthur C. Clarke

WASHINGTON - The following is a statement from Alan Stern, NASA associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington, regarding the death of Arthur C. Clarke:

"Arthur Clarke was a gifted writer of science and science fiction, and an unparalleled visionary of the future, inspiring countless young people throughout the middle and later 20th century with his hopeful vision of how spaceflight would transform societies, economies, and humankind itself.

"Although his personal odyssey here on Earth is now over, his vision lives on through his writing; he will be sorely missed."



Source: NASA Press Release 08-061

Rest in Peace Arthur C. Clarke. I could not aproved some action in your life, from my personal point of view, but you were part of a very special caste within humankind, those who imagine the future.

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