RIP Arthur C. Clarke. He was one of the classic sf writers I grew up on -- various shorts, as well as novels like The City and the Stars and Childhood's End, both of which I still pull down on occasion to read.
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I actually thought last week that he had died. I caught the tail end of an obituary on NPR's All Things Considered, and they closed with Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. Assuming that it was about Clarke, I started searching the web on my BlackBerry, trying to find some reference to his passing. It turned out that it was about the creator of the Eliza computer program.
That made it really weird today to read that Clarke had died.
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