Comments on: Arthur C. Clarke

By: GM

GM — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:14:10 +0000

Fifty years?! No way . . . I want to read this amazing man’s thoughts on the subject now.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:33:39 +0000

“I’d wager the world is going to receive the open acknowledgement of his homosexuality and of his theory about gay consciousness as revolutionary come 2058.”

Drat! I’ll be 101 then if I should live so long.

By: cowboy

cowboy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:59:27 +0000

Who do I give credit for that wonderful sequence in 2001 A Space Odyssey: The one where the hunky guy jogged around inside their spaceship?

Plus, there HAD to be a special bond between Dave Bowman and Frank Poole…why else would they need to use a tanning booth?

The world will miss both Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. Their works had a major influence on me. Thanks Bruce and Regan for your added insights to this man. Yes, he will be missed.

By: Regan DuCasse

Regan DuCasse — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:36:36 +0000

I had only one degree of separation from Arthur C. Clarke. My parents were HUGE fans of his books and I started reading him when I was about eight years old (precocious reader). It is he who saved me in math class. Because my folks took me to JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab) and every other astronomy and science center in the Los Angeles area. It was rocket science that finally helped me with the concepts of trig, geometry and calculus. And I credit him, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov with happy childhood dreams of rockets and space stations and trips to beyond.

He is missed….

May he rest in peace, and God speed.

By: Bruce Garrett

Bruce Garrett — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:29:00 +0000

Cell phone…heck…give back everything global communications satellites have given you.

Clarke was my absolute favorite…long before I realized that I am gay, and longer still before I began to wonder if he was…although Imperial Earth should have settled it for me. I’ve never seen straight men write so movingly about an intimate relationship between two men. Jeeze…and at the end of that one…well…I don’t want to give it away for anyone who hasn’t read it yet.

I wrote on my own blog that of all the greats of science-fiction he was my favorite…and of all the science-fiction universes I’ve ever wandered through, his were the only ones I would have actually wanted to live in. And it wasn’t for his politics so much as his optimism that the future humankind is brighter then it seems at any given moment…but also his decency. He had a good, a beautiful heart. You see it everywhere in his writing…fiction and non-fiction.