Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
I’m back from my conference and am all kinds of tired. I did want to note the passing of Arthur C. Clarke, whose novels I enjoyed and who had the audacity to invent the concept of the geostationary communication satellite.
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Comment by Geof F. Morris
Okay, it may have been because I was sitting on the couch at your house last night when I first read about this, but my first thought was, “I wish I could talk to Stephen about this.”
I’m not extensively read on Clarke [or any scifi, really, no doubt much to my "I've had an Analog subscription since the 1960's" father's chagrin], but I have enjoyed the stuff I’ve read, plus … you know, geostat.
Posted on March 19, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Comment by Jessica
IEEE interviewed him recently. I haven’t read this yet, but here is the url: http://spectrum.ieee.org/mar08/6075
Posted on March 20, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Comment by kat
I really enjoyed reading Clarke when I was growing up. I was a big sci-fi junkie as a teen and haven’t really grown out of it (although my tastes have branched out).
Posted on March 20, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Comment by Stephen
Jessica,
Hey, that’s a cool interview. Thanks for the link.
Posted on March 21, 2008 at 8:56 am