Lost: Arthur C Clarke / Anthony Minghella

[neonlyte]

Bad day for good people

Minghella died after a hemorrhage following a throat operation last week.
Arthur was 90... guess his time ran out.

 

[rgraham666]

Well. Crap.

 

[3113]

I guess it was time for Arthur to finally pass through that Star-Gate....

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/photos/uncategorized/monolith2001a.jpg

In Memorandum, A.C. Clarke.

 

[slyc_willie]

Arthur C. Clarke is one of those men I always wished I'd had a chance to meet. His 'Rama' series with Gentry Lee remains my favorite of all his works. He and Asimov were the only 'hard SF' authors who still managed to write a hell of a story.

Gonna miss you, Art.

 

[impressive]

Fuck.

 

[Belegon]

I'll miss Arthur, despite (or perhaps because of) never meeting him...

 

[jomar]

Rama was good, wasn't it.



I heard Asimov give a talk at college back in the day. They had to set up loud speakers in the quad for the overflow crowd.

 

[The_Fool]

So many authors that helped shape my imagination have passed. I guess in a way this is our "Childhood's End."

 

[Brute_Force]

Minghella was a great director. I thought his vision in The English Patient was absolutely multi-dimensional. A tragic loss for film-lovers.

 

[slyc_willie]

So many authors that helped shape my imagination have passed. I guess in a way this is our "Childhood's End."

Well put.

I'm having a drink in his honor.

 

[impressive]

Well put.

I'm having a drink in his honor.

I'll join you.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Well put.

I'm having a drink in his honor.

I'll raise a glass to the both of them

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Or an entire Tankard. Stella, do you remember the first time you watched 2001: A Space Odyssey? A life-altering experience set to Also Sprach Zarathustra.

 

[3113]

Or an entire Tankard. Stella, do you remember the first time you watched 2001: A Space Odyssey? A life-altering experience set to Also Sprach Zarathustra.

If we're going to re-watch 2001 in Clarke's honor than a tankard won't do it. I'll bring the LSD; Stella, you bring the bong

 

[starrkers]

Ah, crap.

 

[jomar]

If we're going to re-watch 2001 in Clarke's honor than a tankard won't do it. I'll bring the LSD; Stella, you bring the bong

Got that right. And I might have some peyote buttons left over from the Carlos Castenada gathering.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Arthur C Clark

A truly visionary man, far ahead of his time in so many ways. A great loss to us all but he lives on in all that he inspired others to achieve.

 

[gauchecritic]

Never saw this thread so I'll re-post from the (now defunct) one I started.

The inventor of the geo-stationary satellite died today in Sri Lanka aged 90.

Perhaps not his invention but very certainly his intellectual property.

My love of sci-fi came from him along with Asimov, adventure first to begin with and then real 'thinking' sci-fi, they led the way for the modern golden age of scientific fiction.

 

[trysail]

I must have viewed "2001: A Space Odyssey" at least twenty times in the years 1968-1973. I have to admit that I don't think I ever did fully plumb its depths. Every time I saw it, I came away with a different sense of its meaning. The film forever seared Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" into my mind. The incredible juxtaposition of the dance of space and space vehicles with Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" will always linger in my memory. The almost (but not) too-cute derivation of HAL from IBM (you're undoubtedly aware of the transformation) was a pièce de résistance, as was the opening segue from flying bone to rotating space ship. The entire enterprise was a mind-opener; it led me to investigate Nietzsche and Zoroastrianism.

We'll miss ye, Arthur (as we do Stanley Kubrick).


Nice AV, imp !!!!

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Arthur was way cool on many dimensions, not least his invention of the geosynch satellite. I don't know if he was the actual inventor of the space elevator - I do recall that his was one of two great novels about it came out within months of each other and the authors essentially chuckled and shrugged. This is the thing that will really make space "ours," leading to the colonization of the solar system and ultimately the building of generation ships that will colonize the starts. The mono-molecular wires that are the keystone of the invention exist, and the challenge is to make really long ones (like a few hundreds of miles, rather than the current few millimeters.)

I've always dearly loved the first 25 minutes of 2001 - the proto-hominids, etc. The moment when the tossed bone turns into a space ship "waltzing" with a space station, through the end of "The Beautiful Blue Danube" music is perhaps my favorite five minutes in all moviedom.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

If we're going to re-watch 2001 in Clarke's honor than a tankard won't do it. I'll bring the LSD; Stella, you bring the bong

Woo-hoo! I'm so there!

 

[TE999]

Arthur C. Clarke was one of my favorite SF writers when I was young. He made space travel more a reality than a fantasy, more achievable than an imaginary event, more desirable as mankinds greatest adventure.

I still have many of his paperbacks, yellowed with age, but still treasured.

Anyone remember his "Tales From the White Hart" series? It was sophisticated humor at it's best.

Requesicat im Pace Arthur. Ride the sunboat into eternity.

 

[christabelll]

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x94/christabelll/175px-Childhood_68.jpg

He was a true visionary, and a scholar, and mankind will know his loss...
He will be missed.

 

[Carnevil9]

Adulthood's End.

 

[Belegon]

If we're going to re-watch 2001 in Clarke's honor than a tankard won't do it. I'll bring the LSD; Stella, you bring the bong

Got that right. And I might have some peyote buttons left over from the Carlos Castenada gathering.

Woo-hoo! I'm so there!

I'm with you all and I feel that such a meeting of peoples of diverse backgrounds and beliefs gathered to celebrate his life and vision is something that Clarke would greatly appreciate.