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Arthur C. Clarke departs this world

SRI LANKA. Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, who died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90 on 19 March, will be best remembered for 2001: A Space Odyssey. This remarkable vision of a future world, which Stanley Kubrick turned into an Oscar-nominated movie, was based on Clarke’s original novel, The Sentinel. But he also fronted two excellent TV series on the paranormal.

Despite that, according to a tribute by Jeff Greenwald (Wired, 19 March), Clarke “never believed in any notion of an external god, heaven or hell”.

Clarke wrote, co-authored and edited over 100 books, as well as presenting several television series. In the process, he was credited with predicting various technological advances as well as coming up with the concept of communications satellites decades before they became a reality.

He explored a variety of paranormal topics in a 13-part TV series, Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World (1981) which was followed three years later by Arthur C. Clarke’s World of Strange Powers.

Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World, written in collaboration with Simon Ledger and John Fairley, followed a similar format to the TV series, as did Arthur C. Clarke’s Chronicles of the Strange and Mysterious.

Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008
Category: Future

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