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Posted By : Jordan Lapp - 3/18/2008 6:55 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Obit-Clarke.html?hp
 
Seems like we're losing a lot of the greats this past year.

Jordan Lapp
Managing Editor

Posted By : Bill Ward - 3/18/2008 8:26 PM
One of my favorites, wished he could have lived to see us return to space.

Time to reread Childhood's End.

billwardwriter.com


Posted By : Scott M. Sandridge - 3/18/2008 9:55 PM
My cousin is a big fan of his books. I liked his stuff, too. cry

Distant Passages: Volume 1
 
Which lich fell in the ditch?


Posted By : Firlefanz - 3/19/2008 3:56 AM
At least he no longer suffers. It seems he didn't have an easy time in his last years.

Still, it's sad.

- Call me Firle.

Hannah Steenbock

Mystical Adventures
Sphaira

"Die arische Frau" in Pandaimonion - Die Formel des Lebens
"Der Weg nach Eridani" in Earth Rocks 3/2007 (pdf)


Posted By : tchernabyelo - 3/19/2008 5:58 AM
He was pretty much my introduction to Science Fiction. I devoured jus about every short story collection of his I could find in my teenage years.

Brian Dolton
 
Yi Qin stories:
"The Box Of Beautiful Things" - IGMS#3
"The Man Who Was Never Afraid" - Abyss and Apex #20
"At Blue Crane Falls" - Abyss and Apex #25
"Where No Wind Blows" - Staffs & Starships #2
"What The Sea Refuses" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"What The Heart Bears" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"Above The Clouds" - Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel (forthcoming)
 
Other Land Of Wind And Ghosts stories:
"The Dragon Path" - Fictitious Force (forthcoming)
"Three Out Of Four" - Sorcerous Signals Feb-Apr 08 
 
Stories in other settings:
"The Unicorn Hunter" - OG's Speculative Fiction #8
"Call Centre" - Necrotic Tissue #1
"When Winter Came" - ASIM #32
"Cold Fire" - Flashing Swords #9
"St. Saviour And The Devil's Dandy" - Flashing Swords (forthcoming)


Posted By : che2000 - 3/19/2008 7:07 AM
The thing I always liked about Clarke was his impish sense of humour, which is very much to the fore in the 'Tales From the White Hart' collection and perhaps finds its greatest outlet in 'The Nine Billion Names of God' with its killer-funny (and really quite distressing) last line:

"overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."

  
"That blackguard Flashman, who never speaks to one without a kick or an oath--"

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