Arthur C Clarke RIP

"we need to put the sizzle back into space science"

i'm all for kids learning about television, computers and the internet and frankly i can't credit any of that to sci-fi or popular science culture

i realize arthur c clarke thread is not the best place for this conversation -- there's nothing particular to clarke about this impulse except that maybe he's got a foundation in his name

i'd rather see teenagers building spaceships and laser beams than e-bullying each other and posting private pics on myspace.

u gonna get e-bullied

AW...HOPE ITS FULL OF STARS DUDE

I think most of moonship's complaints have merit but they're more accurately seen as symptomatic popular science writing and discourse rather than with SF writers per se.

"syptomatic OF", that is

a new show on Resonance FM, beginning in two weeks, will be reading and discussing SF short stories from the 1930s through the mid 1970s. maybe we can figure out how to get you on the show to talk about this somehow, vah1d??

I wasn't sure he was still living.

I think I remember him sitting next to Walter Cronkite on CBS during the first moon landing.

Fred Pohl is still alive. Philip Jose Farmer is too, but he came a few years later.

Just realized that Jack Vance is still alive too.

Wow that's harsh even for you :(
-- DJ Mencap

wtf I'm experessing genuine regret at his passing here!

wait wait - how was einstein not a better scientist than rachel carson?

I wrote this: http://www.quartzcity.net/2008/03/20/the-enigma-of-arthur-c-clarke/

1) math & science are more difficult than other subjects (humanities, business, etc)

Isn't this...true? I mean I guess it's partly a function of how/at what difficulty level they're taught but in my experience science/math classes are harder. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.

Great stuff there, Elvis!

notice i said the difficulty level of math & science, not math & science classes. the connection between science and science education and the relative difficulty of each is subtle & mysterious

einstein is NOT a better scientist than rachel carson

his archives are "coming out" (AHEM) in 50 years

recent pics look much like Deathbed David Bowman

http://vhttp%3A//www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n2203.jpg
^^^ the best.

RIP, may your heaven be filled with many frolicsome sri lankan lads.

http://www.nooranismith.co.uk/garage%20sale/books/rendezvous%20rama.jpg

Great piece by Michael Moorcock here

weird, the sun had a headline "the paedo has landed" day after he died. was o_O cos i didn't get the pun -- but anyway, it turned out to be about someone else, odd coincidence.

Shame!

(T_T)

the slugs' last episode of this series is the short story "the forgotten enemy" - hear myself, caek, and mark s talk about it here, with a reading at the beginning:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/slugoftime

since recording this show i've found out it was actually written at least a year earlier than we'd said, and appeared in the king's college review of 1948! cambridge vs oxford FITE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOaZspeSBZU

ebooks on sale right now at amazon. City and the Stars, Childhood's End, etc.

Collected Stories too.

wtf was that baja guy on about on this thread

Wait, this last is some truncated "Volume 1" stuff. Never mind.

Anyone else out there watch the Childhood's End miniseries?

No, saw you mention on other thread.

wtf was that baja guy on about on this thread

_Fred Pohl is still alive. Philip Jose Farmer is too, but he came a few years later._

Just realized that Jack Vance is still alive too.

I knew Vance was dead, but I was just thinking about him today. Specifically I was wondering if those two groups of fans who were arguing over whether it was spelt Wankh or Wannek had stopped yet.

I think about Vance every day tbh

I was looking at this list of the oldest living sci-fi and fantasy writers. None of the golden age writers I care about are around, but it's nice to know Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, and Ben Bova are still kicking. Hopefully I didn't just jinx their longevity.

Interesting. Earl Hamner, Jr. Nicholas Moseley.

Phyllis Schlafly, noted sci-fi fantasy author

Is the miniseries worth tracking down? I was interested but didn't have time that week.

sitting on my tivo, will prolly give it a shot sometime next year

Ursula K. Le Guin . . . still kicking

...and still blogging: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Blog2015.html#New

would've been 100 yesterday; had to persuade a friend he was no longer living