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Article: Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008): visionary science-fiction author.(Obituary)
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- Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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LUCKY PROPHETS BECOME vindicated sages in their own lifetimes. Arthur C. Clarke, who died on March 19, 2008, was the luckiest of men, becoming the most famous of science fiction authors by writing of wonder when many were writing of despair.
Clarke was not unique in his optimism. He stood in a tradition of English futurists who have used fiction, non-fiction, or both to paint their visions: H. G. Wells, J. D. Bernal, Olaf Stapledon, Freeman Dyson. They held that only science makes reliable prediction possible and the prospects for human society intelligible. Clarke believed that general laws for scientific extrapolation exist in a way that they do not in politics ...
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