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Article: The grasshopper and his space odyssey: a scientist remembers the celebrated science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke.
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- American Scholar
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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A few years after I began writing for The New Yorker in 1960, the editor, William Shawn, asked me if I would like to do an essay on science fiction. I think there are two groups of scientists: those who love science fiction and those who can't stand it. As a physicist, I am somewhat embarrassed to say that I fall into the latter group. It is usually bad science and worse fiction. Nonetheless, being relatively new at the magazine, I felt that if Shawn wanted it I'd give it a try. My friend Gerald Feinberg, a physics professor at Columbia, loved the stuff. I put my dilemma to him and asked whom should I read. "Arthur C. Clarke" was his immediate reply.
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