Wednesday, March 19, 2008

My God, it's full of stars!

RIP Arthur C. Clarke.

4 comments:

Matt G said...

Same title I had in mind for posting.

As he had requested a humanist, non-religeous memorial service, I suppose that allusions to his finally taking a ride on the metaphysical space elevator would be over the top?

GreatBlueWhale said...

"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."

a sad day.

Anonymous said...

"back to the future; a.c.c. slips the surly bonds of earth" jtc

BryanP said...

Ah, greatbluewhale, you had to go and quote the ending to my favorite Clarke story.

BryanP