Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90

Many readers are sending in word that Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka. He wrote over 100 books including 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rendezvous With Rama, and popularized the ideas of geosynchronous communications satellites and space elevators.

Mortality

[SIGALRM]

It can only be attributable to human error.

Farewell

[The Dobber]

Off to that big old Monolith in the Sky, I suppose

All These Novels...

[cybrpnk2]

...Are Yours. Except for 2001 - attempt no more sequels there.

RIP, ACC.

Don't worry

[Tanman]

in a few years, perhaps longer, he will be reborn to lead the xenu empire on its glorious crusade.

sorry, couldn't resist.

Re:Mortality

[al_fruitbat]

Insufficiently advanced medical technology. Clearly distinguishable from magic.
RIP Sir Arthur, thanks for everything.

Re:Farewell

[Zukix]

today it is a mornolith :(

He's not dead you earthing fools

[0.693]

He's just been absorbed by the monolith.

He was really a futurist...

[Zaatxe]

... he even died tomorrow!

The article states he died on wednesday, but it's still tuesday!
(I know, I know... it's due to the time zones...)

Re:He was really a futurist...

[RobertB-DC]

(I know, I know... it's due to the time zones...)

Perhaps that's the real reason he moved to Sri Lanka? So he could be ahead of our time, as well as his own?

To pay honor to his passing.

[jameskojiro]

I am going to go to the nearest graveyard, find a big black tall grave stone and act like a monkey and throw a plastic bone up in the air and then quietly walk away.

Re:shame.

[Metasquares]

Wow, literary publishing is exactly like scientific publishing.

Re:Farewell

[sharkey]

I bet it's full of stars.


Good luck and Deus speed, Mr. Clarke.

Please observe Clarke's passing respectfully

[IronChef]

Be sure not to share any of his works that you find online, because copyright terms mean the stories cannot be freely distributed.

So please, please, don't search for The Nine Billion Names of God on Google and read one of his greatest short stories.* By not reading it for free, immediately, you are enriching yourself and protecting our way of life. Observe the reasonable limitations on the distribution of creative works that we have in place in the US, and enjoy sharing this story with your friends when it enters the public domain in 2062... ninety five fucking years after it was written.

* Really, don't. Don't to it. **

** You're going to do it, aren't you? I'm telling.

PS Yes, this gets my goat.
PPS Yes, I have written a book, pr8 it if you can find it, I don't care.

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/ [cornell.edu]

Re:shame.

[JustOK]

If I saw Gentry Lee I would have thought about the guy from Rush, who it isn't, but who wrote 2112 and Hyperspace, and then the other guy from Rush who wrote the theme for the first season or two of Andromeda.

Re:He was really a futurist...

[Sneftel]

You know, any sufficiently advanced country is indistinguishable from Sri Lanka.

Re:Steve Ballmer

[jd]

His attempts at nuclear fusion research by accelerating chairs to a high velocity have inspired countless thousands of comic strip writers, and I think it likely that he will always be remembered for this most valuable contribution to society... no matter how hard he tries to make us forget...

Dammit the dude was Knighted

[MrCopilot]

Its Sir Arthur C. Clarke. And I miss him already.

http://mrcopilot.blogspot.com/2008/03/sir-arthur-c-clarke-dead-at-age-90.html [blogspot.com]

Out of all his predictions, I was really pulling for the monkey servants.

From the wikipedia:

As featured on Sky One's "50 Terrible Predictions" programme, Clarke once predicted that apes would function as household servants by the 1960's; "...with our present knowledge of animal psychology, we can certainly solve the servant problem with the help of the monkey kingdom" he said, but quipped "..of course, eventually, our super chimpanzees would start forming trade unions and we'd be right back where we started."

Re:He's not dead you earthing fools

[osu-neko]

Old Slashdotters never die, they just get modded away. ;)

Re:Pedantry, I know. But if you want to use Latin.

[Shinmizu]

What about, "Romans, go home!"

Re:shame.

[Divebus]

Shame? He was 90. Most of hope to live that long and leave such an amazing legacy behind.

By the time Mozart was my age, he had been dead for 20 years.

Re:shame.

[tsm_sf]

Same here...

So long and thanks for all the fiction?

Re:shame.

[eugene ts wong]

Yeah, it's a lot like slashdoting, too.