“Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.”
There are a lot of posts today about Arthur C. Clarke, but take a look at what I think is one of the best.
I only have one other thought to add: for some reason whenever I watch the movie “Contact” I think the charactor of the evil industrialist Hadden was based on Arthur C. Clarke. His manner of speaking, his genius, his wide knowledge, and the lack of religious rites when he died, all make me think of Clarke.
Arther C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, and Isaac Asimov were the giants of science fiction. Pretty much everyone who has written any science fiction in the last 50 years has stolen part of it from one of them.
I need to write a post sometime about the influence each of them has had on me, but it would take a long time to write, as all of them were originals, and all had a part – for better or worse – in making me who I am today.
Arther C. Clarke was the last of this group of titans to leave us. The thinkers of this world will long remember him.
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