Grayling

Second obituary today for those in the arts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm

Wrote some classics

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sasbear

Did anyone have him on the 2008 death stakes?

Grayling

He was 90.....so I bet someone did.

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asher

loved some of his books
RIP

herrchook

That's sad. RIP

Sally Redux

He did write some classics

My husband had a friend from Taunton who fancied himself as a writer and asked ACC for some tips, he told him to get a job and write about what he knew. It didn't go down too well with the pretentious friend

Wol

Always a fan of Clarke: I was fortunate in being able to have a long chat with him on his way to LA for the premier of the sequel (2010?). Among the interesting things he said (well, interesting to *me*) was that they had no sets or even plans of the spaceship from the original, and had had to measure all the dimensions from the original film in order to re-build the sets.

(Edward Heath happened to be sitting alongside him - he just glowered all the time: he probably had no idea who Clarke was <g>)

RIP.

BadgeIsBack

Heath was that sort of bloke.

Clarke was an amazing bloke. The sort of bloke you'd have expected to die awhile back so when they do it comes as a shock.

Earthlight (1955) was my fav.

Timber Floor Au

Thats a shame, he was someone I had heard of... and a very good sci fi fella !

Ste ( RIP ACC )

moneypenny20

I know I say this a lot about people dying but I thought he'd died years ago. 90's not bad though, he fitted a hell of a lot in. Total genius. Trying to imagine him and Patrick Moore meeting as teenagers

Bix

Didn't get into his books but loved hearing his theories and speculative meanderings.

RIP ACC.

yamahaha

WOW, thats a pretty col story, you are a very lucky person to have met such an amazing person. Personally Im a great fan of his work I especially love the Rama series of books. I particularly like the way he applied realistic relatavistic physics to his stories and not the outlandish stuff of most other Sci-Fi Authors. Even with these more realistic limitations of the universe, for example non FTL travel, he still managed to produce amazing an believable stories that spanned the cosmos...
RIP Arthur, I wonder if you are witnessing more wonders now than you can ever have dreamt of since your passing....I hope so!