The Clarke-Asimov Treaty stated that each author would refer to the other as the world’s greatest writer in his specialty—and refer to himself as merely second-best.
Under these terms, Asimov would crown Clarke as the best science-fiction scribe ever, while Clarke would anoint Asimov as the greatest science writer. Of course, both could publicly crown himself a close second to the other.

Clarke’s dedicated his book Report on Planet Three, first published in 1972, with:
“In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer.”

One of his best stories was one of his first – “Rescue Party”. Still sends a shiver of pride down the spine about the achievements of the human race.
He also was quite droll in his “Tales of the White Hart.” “The Star had quite an impact as well.”

His quality fell off, but I have all of his works published prior to 1990.

Robert

back on point..

I installed the old, big satellite dishes when I first started working with my dad, he was telling me about geosynchronous orbit and it was called the ‘Clarke’ orbit..

as soon as I saw his name in the library under Sci-Fi, I knew it was him..

Silverblade on March 18, 2008 at 9:34 PM

Synchronicity(meaningful coincidence) at its’ finest.
R.I.P. Sir Clarke

Sir Clarke has been my main inspiration in my writing.

My husband told me the news when he came up to bed. I’m ashamed to admit I cried.

RIP, Sir Arthur. You will be missed.

My parents took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey when it was released at the Hollywood Cineramadome. I was like 8 or 9 years old. They took me because they couldn’t find a babysitter. I didn’t understand much of the movie, but the space travel and special effects were awe inspiring to me. Then we landed on the moon and walked on it in 1969. We watched it live. The following year my Mom turned me on to my first Arthur C. Clarke book and gave me the book A Fall of Moondust, which she read when she was about 19 years old and had saved in an old box of books. I’ve been a fan of his books, and sci-fi, ever since.

Thanks to 2001 and the Arthur C. Clarke books (among others) I read, at about 13 I went on a bigtime UFO and “spirit world” kick for a few years. I really got into exploring UFO’s, ghosts/spirits, interstellar space travel, and other phenomenon. I was engrossed in it. I got hooked on Isaac Asimov, HG Wells, Robert Heinlin, EE “Doc” Smith, Jules Verne, Ray Bradbury, among others, and naturally, Carl Sagan. I was ravanous for their books.

Arthur C. Clarke was my introduction to sci-fi, and what an introduction it was.

“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.” -Arthur C. Clarke

Thank you for challenging my mind, my imagination, and my perceptions of our universe. RIP, sir.

Clarke: What is going to happen?
GOD: Something wonderful.
Clarke: I’m afraid.
GOD: Don’t be. We’ll be together.
Clarke: Where will we be?
GOD: Where I am now.

The loss is ours. The gain is heaven.

No, ’2001′ was the 1968 movie. 2010 came out in 1984. One of the stars was Roy Scheider, who also recently passed away.

Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke. How many kids read their works and decided that being a physicist/chemist/engineer/cyberneticist was the way to usher in the futures they had read about? I’d challenge anyone to pick three other writers of the 20th century whose works had such positive impact on the human race.

“Should have patented that satellite idea…”

Off to The City and the Stars.

9 billion goodbyes.

I vaguely remember an article about how he and the director of “2010″ would e-mail script edits back and forth across the world back in the early 80’s while the film was in production. …

Sir Loin on March 18, 2008 at 10:59 PM

It was a 1968 movie.

I started reading his works in 1955 – I’m still reading.

As I recall, Sir Arthur C. Clarke was, if not the inventor, at least one of the earliest promoters of the ‘space elevator’ idea. It was the focus of one of his novels. Now even NASA is interested.

RIP.

“Open the Pod Bay doors, HAL!”

“HAL…. Open the Pod Bay doors!”

Rest in Peace and God Speed……….