Happy Birthday, Arthur C. Clarke

[filkertom]

Sir Arthur is 87 today. Among the cool places to visit in his honor:

• his page at Wikipedia
  
• a page of Clarke quotations
  
• the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation
  
• the Arthur C. Clarke Award
  
• an archived exhibit from the British Science Museum
  
• an interview with Free Inquiry Magazine
  
• The 2001 Internet Resource Archive
  
• Kubrick2001: The Space Odyssey Explained
  
• 2001: A Space Odyssey - the SciFlicks.com Guide

Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Big Clarke fan here. In fact, my first [and to date only] published fiction was titled "Indistinguishable from Magic" [Fantasy Book, March 1985].

[surakofb5.livejournal.com]

Reading Clarke's fiction inspired me to become a scientist. I knew by the time I was 14 or 15 that I wanted to be a scientist and writer like him (I'm still working on the writer part). I own a copy of almost every piece of fiction he's published.

I need to print out Clarke's First Law and post it in my cube at work as a reminder.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

[janet-coburn.livejournal.com]

And here's a link to the novel Trigger, which Dr. Clarke and Michael Kube-McDowell collaborated on:

http://www.sff.net/people/K-Mac/novels.htm#Trigger