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Article: Guru of the science fiction genre beams up.(Dispatches)
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- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2008
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BYLINE: John Clute
Next to HG Wells, Arthur C Clarke, who died at a hospital in Sri Lanka this week, aged 90, was the widest-known English writer of science fiction of the 20th century.
Like Wells, he was also a voluminous author of non-fiction; both men were great popularisers of science, with styles of such pellucidity that the great issues of the century - if only for a moment or two of relief - seemed solvable.
It is, however, almost certainly for their science fiction that these two great and prominent Englishmen will be remembered. Both were honoured in the United States - for the past century the main home of the science-fiction genre - ...