News: Visionary sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clark dies
Via The Associated Press:
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.
Clarke, who had battled debilitating post-polio syndrome since the 1960s and sometimes used a wheelchair, died at 1:30 a.m. after suffering breathing problems, aide Rohan De Silva said.
Clark wrote the novella on which “2001: A Space Odessy” is based. He also wrote the classic novel Rendezvous with Rama, which has also been made in a yet-unreleased movie:
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RIP Sir Arthur. He really was a prescient writer; see “The Nine Billion Names Of God.”
Fortunately or un-, he was so burned out by the making of 2001 that he passed on the Beatles’ 1968 Apple Films invitation to film THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
Ringo would have made a great Samwise.
Darn, an admitted pedophile bites the dust.
By “admitted pedophile” you refer to a London Mirror column which claimed that there was a recording of Clarke saying he liked sex with boys.
No such tape has ever been turned over to authorities. Indeed, the Sri Lanka government asked the Mirror for a copy of the tape and no such tape was produced.
http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/08/13/fhead.htm