I learned this afternoon that Arthur C. Clarke had died. It was bound to happen, sooner rather than later considering his age. But still, it really is chilling to me. I'm an old-school sci-fi geek, when it comes down to it, and a fair amount of my teeth-cutting was on Clarke's books. He was all the more admirable for his scientific knowledge. I still remember reading Earthlight. It was amazingly accurate, from a moon exploration standpoint, with only one major gaffe (the idea of a kind of plant life living in the shadowed craters of the moon). That one error was pretty excusable considering the book was written in 1955.
Anyway, there are a lot of obits out there, so I won't go into it any further. I'll just say that I'm saddened by his death, but I'm very, very glad that he lived.
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