Educated Guesswork (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
From Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust (1961): When he had finished dictating, he paused ot marshal his ideas, could think of nothing further, and added: "Copy to Chief Administrator, Moon: Chief Engineer, Farside; Supervisor, Traffic Control; Tourist Commissioner; Central Filing, Classify as Confidential." He pressed the transcription key. Within twenty seconds, all twelve pages of his report,...
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Something like life (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
1. I discovered to my chagrin is very exhausting for me. This is surprising, as I finished Heinlein on my laptop, back in 2006. 2. I was reading collection of short stories by Arthur C Clarke . The collection caught me by suprise because of its dark and mostly apocalyptic tones. My repertoire of Clarke is pretty limited (just 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequels ), but I thought he was the more optimistic...
MetaxuCafe Litblog Network (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
I do, indeed. After all, what is magic but a mystery arising beyond the boundaries of our understanding? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke We see magic all the time. There is the unhappy person who falls in love and the whole world around them changes for the better. Science sees magic, when people are healed by ‘pointless’ placebos. Science admits...
Science Pal (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Sounding like something Arthur C Clarke might have come up with if he had scripted Saturday Night Fever, a London club launches tonight that claims it will be powered by clubbers shaking their stuff on its dance floor. Named Surya, the King's Cross nightclub is billing itself as the world's first eco-disco. It is the baby of Dr Earth aka property developer Andrew Charalambous. Worth an estimated £100...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Algis Budrys was one of the writers who made his name alongside such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick in the early-1950s boom in science-fiction magazines.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
He gave the world 2001: A Space Odyssey and the concept of the intelligent computer in the form of the murderous Hal. He predicted geostationary satellites and space stations. Now, four months after his death, Arthur C Clarke prepares to dazzle the world one final time when his last novel is published.
Space Ref (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Arthur C. Clarke is best remembered for the saga 2001: A Space Odyssey, published 40 years ago. The driving force behind that novel and the screenplay was Stanley Kubrick, who had developed a fascination for extraterrestrial intelligence.
NASA Watch (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Cry havoc , The Space Review "Did you know that NASA is a fascist organization? How about the Constellation program--did you realize that it was fascist too? Or the Apollo program? What about the philosophical/spiritual observation that Arthur C. Clarke defined as "the Overview Effect" whereby from space, Earth's political borders and squabbles disappear? Did you realize that this philosophy--perhaps...
FilmChat (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Arthur C. Clarke passed away a few months ago , but that's no reason new interviews with him can't keep popping up. SciFi.com posted one yesterday that was conducted in various installments eight or nine years ago, in which Clarke talks a fair bit about the people he has known and counted among his friends and influences. My favorite anecdote is this one: Walter Cronkite is a man I've always admired,...
Between the Lines (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
So an unknown billionaire named Jeffrey E. Epstein has spent millions trying to develop a thinking and feeling computer. But winds up in jail instead. This sounds eerily like a wish to build a HAL 9000 computer that was the central character of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film, “2001: A [...]
Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2008 - Arthur C. Clarke, the British science fiction writer who died on March 19, 2008, is best remembered for the saga 2001: A Space Odyssey, published 40 years ago. The driving force behind that novel and the screenplay was Stanley Kubrick, who had developed a fascination for extraterrestrial intelligence.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
Interviews and Profiles: SCI FI Weekly has posted a never-before-seen 2001 interview with Arthur C. Clarke . Adventures in Reading interviews Nancy Kress , author of Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories and Dogs . The World in the Satin Bag interviews John Varley , author of Rolling Thunder . Bibliophile Stalker interviews Paolo Bacigalupi , author of Pump Six and Other Stories . Graeme's...
Fashionfunky (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Its one of the most ironic truths about humanity and its something that I realised while reading the Rama series from Arthur C Clarke. A lot of groundbreaking inventions that we came across are thanks to the military complex. While...
Astrobiology Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
This retrospective highlights Arthur C. Clarke's influence on space travel, space exploration, and astrobiology.
