All the great authors are going...

[owl]

All over LJ: Arthur C. Clarke has died

He was the first scence fiction author I ever read. I was aged nine.

And Match it for Pratchett now has its own website

Comments

[steve-savicki.livejournal.com]

Never heard of him. What books did he write?

[owl]

You jest, right?

2001: A Space Odyssey (and the screenplay)
Childhood's End
Rendezvous with Rama

He introduced the concept of the geostationary satellite and Clarke's Laws; the third is the best known.

[steve-savicki.livejournal.com]

What year was 2001 the movie filmed?

[strangerian.livejournal.com]

It was released in 1968. I imagine it was filmed in 1967. About the time Jimmy Page was getting famous.

[strangerian.livejournal.com]

Sad. He was the second or third SF writer I read, more or less tied with Asimov. H. Beam Piper was first for me. (It was Little Fuzzy, which is a load of colonialist bollocks in retrospect, but the wonder of other kinds of people in different skins eclipsed everything else at the time. I was nine, too.) Then there was the library, and Clarke writing about *realistic* space travel, Tales from the White Hart, and similar stuff. The movie 2001 was a rude shock, since it didn't make any sense (overall -- the space station scenes were fascinating) if you were sober.

A year after all the misplaced Y2K panic, I was having a quiet low-key New Year's Eve, and found the movie on at 9 pm -- and realized it was on purpose for East Coast time, and we were officially Living In The Future.

[krpalmer.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the first SF author I read, or when, but I know Clarke's work was there very early on to be signed out of the local library, the "Expedition to Earth" anthology and finding the novel version of 2001... As I've seen said elsewhere, it feels like the passing of an era.