Posted to www.jaluo.com by alangreen on behalf of ‘power beam spacer’
mid March 2008

http://www.space.com/news/080318-arthur-clarke.html

I recommend to you the above link. 

I would like to express my appreciation for the written works of Arthur C. Clark.  He has been a prolific author of science, spaceflight, and science fiction items.  In SF, he is surely among the greats, which includes / included, among others, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and more.

Concepts he published lead toward com-sats, which are such an important fixture in our present society.  I am glad to hear he was honored for this with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Richard Hogland has pointed out the remarkable coincidence between Clark’s fictional descriptions of a certain outer planet’s moon, in comparison to observation in this decade by the Cassini space probe.  The body is Iaptis, satellite of Saturn, a ‘Moon with A View’.  (Look for that article on www.enterprisemission.com).

One of ‘Clark’s Laws’ states:
  “A sufficiently advanced technology may to its less advanced observers, be indistinguishable from magic.”

His writings are in fact a magic which can continue to be appreciated in the years still to come.
— pbs —

A.C. Clark, Author, passes away at age 90