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

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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.