Sensible Erection | Arthur C. Clarke Still Dead

Tuesday, 18 March 2008

quote [ Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and a man considered one of the world's top science fiction writers, has died. ]

He put himself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.

Unfortunately none of my emergency repost material really seems appropriate.

[by Anti-fuites@8:37amGMT] [+10 Underrated]

Comments

Frobozz said @ 8:38am GMT on 18th Mar
I wasn't even going to try and post. No doubt you were seconds late on the trigger.

Anti-fuites said @ 8:38am GMT on 18th Mar
Same photo and everything.

walkingtaco said @ 8:39am GMT on 18th Mar
I'm faster AND I spelled his name right!

Nice thumbnail, though...

Anti-fuites said @ 8:40am GMT on 18th Mar
That's what I get for taking an extra minute to find an appropriate quote.

TheCooler said @ 8:39am GMT on 18th Mar
Reposts, quick as a gun flash in the night, which one will survive? Also I was just finishing, "Childhood's End." He lived a long life though.

De_Wr0ng said @ 8:40am GMT on 18th Mar
REEEEEEPOST by a minute.

That sucks!

mwoody said @ 8:41am GMT on 18th Mar
Leave it to a sci-fi author to die twice!

De_Wr0ng said @ 8:41am GMT on 18th Mar
Wait, isn't today opposite day? Could have swore I heard Graham say so.

TheCooler said @ 8:42am GMT on 18th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
He says a lot of things.

Dooming_Doom said @ 8:41am GMT on 18th Mar
:(

nitromaniac said @ 8:43am GMT on 18th Mar
They die in threes. I wonder who the last one is gonna be.

Anti-fuites said @ 8:44am GMT on 18th Mar
Mr Clark gets two votes apparently

Todomanna said @ 8:45am GMT on 18th Mar
What about that guy from Abba? Or does that not count?

-_- said @ 8:54am GMT on 18th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
Apparently Mr. Clark has died in threes himself :(

sanepride said @ 8:54am GMT on 18th Mar [Score:1 Underrated]
A death noteworthy enough for two posts.
First SF novel I ever read, in fact the first 'grown-up' novel of any kind - '2001'. Followed immediately by 'Childhood's End'.

Khafra said @ 9:17am GMT on 18th Mar
Not the best of the 20th century, but one of a few immortals. With Asimov, Heinlein, and now him gone, that era is definitively over. And now I'll probably never visit Sri Lanka :/

maryyugo said @ 10:22am GMT on 18th Mar
we gonna read this 2001 times?

Amul Muzz said @ 10:23am GMT on 18th Mar
2010 if need be.

Supreme_Coconut said @ 2:23pm GMT on 18th Mar
But certainly not 2060.

Amul Muzz said @ 4:54am GMT on 19th Mar
No one should go that far.

felix said @ 3:09pm GMT on 18th Mar
:(