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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[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.