Arthur C. Clarke is dead

Arthur C. Clarke is mostly known as the “2001 A Space Odyssey” author but he was much more. One of my high school term papers was taken from his book “Interplanetary Flight.” In it, he was the first in semi-popular literature to discuss such things as escape velocity, orbital velocity and the concept of a geostationary satellite orbit. Interestingly enough, I cannot find reference to that book in his Wikipedia entry and Amazon.com had a later publication date than I remember.  Maybe there was a second edition. Anyway, he was a great mind and we are better for his having lived.

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2 Responses to “Arthur C. Clarke is dead”

  1. Mike LaRoche says:
    March 19, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    I’m hoping that someday movies will be made from the latter two novels in Clarke’s 2001 series.

  2. Eric Blair says:
    March 20, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Good to see your post, Dr. L.

    Here is my favorite short story by Clarke, and it is the one I like to show people who sneer that Clarke could not write with depth or emotion:

    http://lucis.net/stuff/clarke/star_clarke.html