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drora
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# Posted: 19 Mar 08 08:22
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Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the epic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, died Wednesday at age 90, an associate confirmed. Clarke died early Wednesday at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. "He had been taken to hospital in what we had hoped was one of the slings and arrows of being 90, but in this case it was his final visit," Chase said. Clarke wrote around 100 books and hundreds of short stories and articles"....
I love all his books so much 
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Ruden Fretsbo
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# Posted: 19 Mar 08 11:11
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REST IN PEACE...
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Bluesbuster
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# Posted: 19 Mar 08 12:12
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Or rest in Space...
I'm quiet a sf - fan myself, but (shame on me) I must confess that I'm not very familiar with
this authors' work
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fotogravenswaay
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# Posted: 19 Mar 08 17:27
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if one should be burried in space...it is Arthur C.Clarke.............
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giz
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# Posted: 19 Mar 08 17:46
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Drora, on this picture I had a comment saying: this remembers me of the movie
A space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. so this is for Arthur C. Clarke.
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sawsengee
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# Posted: 19 Mar 08 18:25
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Thanks drora,
hope this little picture of mine pays a humble tribute to a great writer and a great visionary
.......A space odyssey 2001.............
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Ruud~
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# Posted: 19 Mar 08 22:40
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Hi Drora,
I used to read him as a boy. His best book, if you ask me, is Rendezvous with Rama. I felt sad when I heard the news of his death. He was a wonderful writer and a cheerful, intelligent and friendly man.
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drora
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# Posted: 20 Mar 08 14:34
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I took this picture yesterday in Omer (near beer-sheva in the south)...and I was thinking about his books )
Rendezvous with Rama - I loved it.
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Ruud~
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# Posted: 20 Mar 08 20:51
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David Fincher is working on a screen adaptation of Rendevous with Rama. I just checked. The date of release has been moved from 2008 to 2009. See here. I expect it to be every bit as good as 2001.
A great deal of Clarke's books have been recorded as audio books. It's wonderful to hear his stories told by voice actors!
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