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RIP: Arthur C. Clarke.
by cishanjia @ 2008-03-19 - 11:18:56

For those who haven't already heard, the author Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm

Famous for many things including predicting the communications satellite and penning 2001 and sequels, I have a small "claim to fame". In 2000 I won a copy of his book "Greetings Carbon-Based Bipeds!" as the prize for winning British MENSA's Millennium Writing competition. (The ironic anecdotal story being that I mis-spelt "bipeds" and "bipods" which my spell-checker and the publisher all missed! So my article title read "Goodbye Carbon-Based Bipods!" when published.)

May he rest in peace.

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