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Article: FROM 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
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Time-Binding Tales The First Steps
[Editor's Note: On March 19, 2008, the eminent inventor, futurist, and science fiction writer, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, died at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at age 91. Clarke's clear-eyed view of human nature figured large at the beginning of his most well-known work, the popular 2001 : A Space Odyssey. This excerpt originally appeared, with permission, in the Winter 2000-2001 ETC, Vol 57, Issue 4.]
A NEW ANIMAL was abroad on the planet, spreading slowly out from the African heartland. It was still so rare that a hasty census might have overlooked it, among the teeming billions of creatures roving over land and sea. There was no evidence, as yet, that it ...