He will very much be missed. I'm glad he stuck around as long as he did.

Ugh. Horrible.

Wasn't he living in Sri Lanka, or was for a while?

Bummer. He was one of the great ones.

I will miss him, I have been reading his books for more than 50 years.

Truly one of my favourite science fiction writers ever. A real inspiration to so many, and someone who left the world a better place for having been here.

A true visionary and refined intellect. He helped us take a look at some of the Big Questions. (sniff)

This guy was a prophet in more ways than most would realize. In 1999 to 2002, I experienced something that was very 2001ish, black monolith thrown in to boot. However, instead of "2001; A Space Odyssey", it was more "2001; A Spiritual Idiocy". Maybe some day I'll explain it further. All I know, is that it let me know Clark was MORE visionary for sure. Perhaps it was one of those "zeitgeist" things.

The last of the "Big Three" is gone. Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke. May you all rest in peace in that place where imagination and dreams become reality.

Good-bye.

One of my favorite writers....... He will be missed

God bless and thank you...........one of my favorites

Rendezvous With Rama

But HAL still lives... and he dreams now!

There was a lot of science in his science fiction. The film 2001 a Space Odyssey was one of the few movies made about space where they did not have noise in space or gravity or instantaneous communication with the earth taking into account the speed of radio waves and the distance from earth. His stories obeyed the laws of physics and lost nothing of interest because of it.

I also enjoyed Rendezvous with Rama and Childhoods End. Arthur C Clarke could make the "science" part of science fiction interesting and you learned a lot because of this.