Goodnight, funny guy.
(CNN) -- 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, has died at age 90, an associate said.
Visionary author Arthur C. Clarke had fans around the world.
Clarke had been wheelchair-bound for several years with complications stemming from a youthful bout with polio and had suffered from back trouble recently, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.
He died early Wednesday at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, Chase said.
[From Author Arthur C. Clarke dies - CNN.com]
While at this very moment hordes of douchebag blogger types are furiously scouring Wikipedia and the Internet Movie Database for trivial bits of his career to fluff THEIR blog entries/obituaries, I will instead relish the fact that I have actually seen 2001/2010 over a dozen times, read the whole 2K series and many of his greatest short stories.
My favorite was of course The Sentinel, which is the basis for 2001: A Space Odyssey (note to said douchebag bloggers: 2001 was a novelization of the script). I also have the dubious honor of having had my very vintage copy of the 2001 novella stolen from me by an ex employer. It is sad because I know he did not even bother to read it, it is either in a dark closet or it was dumped into the trash years ago.
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