Arthur C. Clarke Dead

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Author Arthur C. Clarke dies

Clarke had been wheelchair-bound for several years with complications stemming from a youthful bout with polio and had suffered from back trouble recently, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.

He died early Wednesday -- Tuesday afternoon ET -- at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, Chase said.

Source and more: www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/book...rke/index.html

He will be greatly missed. I very much enjoyed reading his Odyssey series.

[Stouthorn]

It's sad, but he was a very old man that lived a very full life. He's left behind a prolific collection of work for us all to enjoy, and because of that he'll never really be gone.

[Kor]

True, he will always be alive through his various works.

[jewelspike]

Yes, that's true about any writer.

On the news, they announced Clarke's death, but my mother and I were only half paying attention and didn't recognize him. I asked, "Is he the one wrote 2001 and the Odyssey series or not?" My mother denied it, but I informed her that she was wrong after I checked out his name at the library where I work.