Jun 3, 2010
Poor Arthur C. Clarke.
I’m being facetious, of course. The late, great science fiction writer was anything but poor, literally and figuratively. To paraphrase a certain SF TV character, Clarke lived long and prospered. The author of Rendezvous With Rama, Childhood’s End and other classic novels also was credited with being at least part of the brains behind the modern communications satellite. The geosynchronous orbit, in fact, is known as the “Clarke Orbit” in his honor. But Clarke’s widest fame probably is due to his association with a movie – Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” for