Arthur C. Clarke Dies At 90

From his detailed forecast of telecommunications satellites in 1945, more than a decade before the first orbital rocket flight, to his co-creation, with the director Stanley Kubrick, of the classic science fiction film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Clarke was both prophet and promoter of the idea that humanity’s destiny lay beyond the confines of Earth.

I read  a number of his books, Songs of Distant Earth and  Childhood’s End.  He was an amazing and legendary author.

Arthur C. Clarke, premier science fiction writer, dies at 90