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To: Junkyardawg who wrote (652)	3/19/2008 8:36:15 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (3) of 9626

My first introduction to his writing was A Fall of Moondust, when it appeared in Readers Digest Condensed Books. Guess I should read more of his stuff. Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and prophet of the satellite era, dies aged 90 dailymail.co.uk Unusually for a celebrity writer, Clarke was always highly approachable - he described himself as a “failed recluse”, holed up in his luxury Colombo home. His phone number was listed in the Sri Lankan directory. Until his health really started to go downhill in the late 1990s, he would always answer calls from fans personally, often spending half an hour or more chatting away about space elevators of the possibilities of colonising the Moon.

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