{"id":970,"date":"2008-03-19T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/arthur-c-clarke-1917-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T02:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:02:00","slug":"arthur-c-clarke-1917-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/03\/arthur-c-clarke-1917-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"Arthur C. Clarke, 1917 &#8211; 2008."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R-DXNUTNz_I\/AAAAAAAABX0\/jnwz9jLgfkY\/s1600-h\/arthurcclarke-a.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/R-DXNUTNz_I\/AAAAAAAABX0\/jnwz9jLgfkY\/s400\/arthurcclarke-a.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/movingpictureblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/rip-arthur-c-clarke-1917-2008.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joe Leydon<\/a> says this is one of his favorite pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/newsbites-del-toro-mary-rambo-childhood.html#4\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Arthur C. Clarke<\/a>, who died today at the age of 90.  I agree.  Partly because I grew up with an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osborne_1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Osborne 1<\/a> computer, and I saw several Kaypro machines at the F.O.G. meetings that I used to attend with my dad in the 1980s.  And partly because it was during this period that I saw <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00004VVN8\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">2010: The Year We Make Contact<\/a><\/i> (1984; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030717042051\/http:\/\/www.novogate.com\/board\/3322\/Archives\/05-25-2002\/65647-1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">my comments<\/a>) and, through it, discovered both the original novel by Clarke and the novel that preceded it.  I didn\u2019t get around to seeing <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/product-placements-throughout-history.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2001: A Space Odyssey<\/a><\/i> (1968) itself until a few years later, when it happened to be showing at the UBC theatre, and I didn\u2019t really \u201cget\u201d the film until I saw it again many years after <i>that<\/i>.  But it\u2019s a treasure, and thought-provoking.  Sadly, I have only read a few of Clarke\u2019s <i>other<\/i> books.  I own an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312878605\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">exhaustive anthology<\/a> of his short stories but haven\u2019t gotten very far into it.  And <a href=\"http:\/\/kevinwrites.typepad.com\/otherwise_known_as_kevin_\/2008\/03\/a-sad-day-for-s.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kevin Miller<\/a> reminds me that I still haven\u2019t read my copy (or is it my wife\u2019s?) of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NQ7GCQ\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lost Worlds of 2001<\/a><\/i>, which chronicles the making of Stanley Kubrick\u2019s film, as Clarke saw it.  And then there are the books I have only <i>dreamed<\/i> of picking up, like <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743475186\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">From Narnia to a Space Odyssey<\/a><\/i>, which collects the letters exchanged by Clarke and \u2014 believe it or not \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/inklings-article-archive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">C.S. Lewis<\/a>.  Too much reading to do.  Too little time.  Sigh.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Leydon says this is one of his favorite pictures of Arthur C. Clarke, who died today at the age of 90. I agree. Partly because I grew up with an Osborne 1 computer, and I saw several Kaypro machines at the F.O.G. meetings that I used to attend with my dad in the 1980s. 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