Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dies
26/03/2008 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Tor Books report that Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote almost one hundred books, and who was known to many as the author of the science fiction novel, Childhood's End, and as Stanley Kubrick's collaborator on the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, died today, Wednesday, March 19th 2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at the age of 90. Buy Arthur C. Clarke in the USA - or Buy Arthur C. Clarke in the UK  According to Patrick Nielsen Hayden, senior editor of science fiction at Tor Books, "[Clarke] was the last, really the last, of the heroic age of twentieth-century science fiction writers. Everyone knows the trinity: Asimov, Heinlein, and Clarke... He was all about the transformational reframe, the cosmic perspective, that step off into the great shining dark. He believed it would improve us. He rejoiced to live in a gigantic universe of unencompassable scale, and he thought the rest of us should rejoice, too."
David G. Hartwell, senior editor at Tor Books, said of Clarke's legacy, "Arthur C. Clarke was the great master of poetic description of technology, and of astronomical vistaas, in the science fiction of the 20th century. He was captivated by space and space travel, but also by big, transforming ideas, often embodied in huge technological marvels, such as Rama, or the last city of the human race, Diaspar, in The City and the Stars. He was a booster for progress, and maintained and communicated a positive excitement about the future that was much needed in the fiction of the 1950s to the 2000s and much valued by his readers. Like his friend Isaac Asimov, he was a leading popular science writer. And like his friend Robert A. Heinlein, he was an indefatigable promoter of space travel and space exploration."
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