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| Arthur C. Clarke dies |
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Rash
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May 2002
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Matt Smith
Member #783
November 2000
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OK, now I AM depressed. He did beat Heinlein and Asimov by a good margin tho. |
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GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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That's a bad evening there. I hope there is something after death, just because loosing someone as him for the eternity is a shame. "Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours" |
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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What a pitty. Speaking about a golden sci-fi triangle I still can't understand that Dick never wasn't between Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke. [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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gnolam
Member #2,030
March 2002
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I heard. -- |
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nonnus29
Member #2,606
August 2002
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NOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo!
Ah well, the inventor of the satellite had to die some day. I rate Clarke as a much better writer than Asimov, and generally better than Heinlein, but some of Heinleins stuff was pretty damn good. |
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mEmO
Member #1,124
March 2001
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This is sad news indeed. On a sidenote, this reached a.cc before it was slashdoted, which doesn't happen all that frequently. --------------------------------------------- |
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Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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Quote: He was one of very few of the "classic" SF writers I feel actually lived up to his hype. Very true. --> |
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ReyBrujo
Moderator
January 2001
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Not that it shocked me like Gygax's, but he will be missed. He was lucky to write stories when marketing was not everything. -- |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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I didn't even know he was still alive. I liked everything of his that I read, which was more than a little.
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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The world has just lost one of the last, maybe even the last, remaining classic sci-fi author. I hope there will be others at least on par with this old generation (Asimov, Clarke, Dick, Heinlein, Herbert). I liked most of his works - though harder to read, because generally there isn't that much action - mainly for those visions of future and inventions. I think his short stories were somewhat better than some of his books. What I didn't really liked were the books he wrote with co-operation with other authors - Richter 10 and last three books of Rama series. Quote: On a sidenote, this reached a.cc before it was slashdoted, which doesn't happen all that frequently. I wonder if we shall be afraid... [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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Quote: hope there will be others at least on par with this old generation Talent like theirs will exist again. That talent may not be interested in writing sci-fi, which would be unfortunate, but it will exist. While they are very different from the greats of the last generation, I get a lot of enjoyment from the current generation of sci-fi. Quote: last three books of Rama series. I loved the first Rama book, the rest of the series, not so much.
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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Quote: I loved the first Rama book, the rest of the series, not so much.
Pretty much same here. I almost gave up reading the second book. Fortunatelly it got better in the third and in the last. I quite liked the idea, but... [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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I read... three of the books I think. Unfortunately I haven't had any luck finding the first one again when I have money.
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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You mean that you haven't read the original Rendevouz with Rama? [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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imaxcs
Member #4,036
November 2003
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I didn't know him.
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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I thought he was dead a long time ago? Or was that Heinlein? Quote: Ah well, the inventor of the satellite had to die some day. Do you mean geosynchronous satellite?
They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas. |
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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That surely was Heinlein. [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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Quote: I think his short stories were somewhat better than some of his books. Frank Herbert was the same way. --> |
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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Dune is surely exception to that rule. But only the first one. [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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Sure, the first Dune novel was brilliant, but in general his novels were extremely dry. If you filled a book with nothing but the Catalogue of Ships from Homer's Iliad endlessly repeated, it'd still be more entertaining than most of his novels. His short stories... very nice. They were all quite enjoyable from what I remember. --> |
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Ariesnl
Member #2,902
November 2002
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I read it this morning .. sad news I liked the man and his work Perhaps one day we will find that the human factor is more complicated than space and time (Jean luc Picard) |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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Quote: You mean that you haven't read the original Rendevouz with Rama? I checked it out from my high school, but I haven't been able to find it since at a time when I've had money. Come to think of it, my high school had a lot of great sci-fi in it's library. Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, Heinlein. It was awesome.
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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IMHO it will be more of a loss when Terry Pratchett dies. |
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OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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RP: and it doesn't look good for him, I've heard something about Alzheimer disease. [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
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