Chris Howard's Writing Blog

Arthur C. Clarke

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90...more from The New York Times

Sad.  I saw him at the Heinlein Centennial last summer, live from Sri Lanka, and he joked and told old stories.  Brilliant. 

My favorite couple lines from the AP article at NYT:

He moved there [Sri Lanka] in 1956, lured by his interest in marine diving which, he said, was as close as he could get to the weightless feeling of space.

"I'm perfectly operational underwater," he once said.

Links

http://www.clarkefoundation.org

The Ultimate Science Fiction Workshop is back!

If you're in the Boston area and you're serious about writing SF & F, I really recommend this 10-week course by Jeffrey A. Carver & Craig Shaw Gardner.

More here:  http://www.starrigger.net/workshop.htm

And that's not all:

Jeffrey A. Carver has posted the first three chapters of his latest novel Sunborn (Tor, Fall 2008)

http://www.starrigger.net/Sunborn_excerpt.htm