Arthur C. Clarke, author of more than 100 books including the one that made him known to many more millions, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” has passed from us.
Thank you for your passion and your prose. Thank you for your vision.
Thank you for speaking out on important issues, for not keeping silent.
We all have favorite scenes, chapters or quotes from his novels or movies.
But my favorite remains this one not published in any novel: Years after missions to the moon had ended, Clarke was asked what he thought was the most amazing part of the whole race to the moon.
What’s most amazing to me, he said, was that we could go there…and not go back.
I love him too. Arthur C Clarke….what a man. I used to play table tennis with him in Sri Lanka.
What an honor to have known him. Such a visionary…..
I feel like I should add to the chorus of his virtues. But I can’t get past the lump in my throat. Isaac is gone, Robert is gone and now Arthur too. I don’t think I’ll ever read their likes again. They kept me sane and company hidden under bales of hay while growing up fundamental. Now I’m 51 and my mother still asks when I’m going to grow up enough to stop reading Science Fiction. Hopefully never. We have all lost someone special today.