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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:00 AM

The last rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke

Back in the day, 50 cents would get your mind blown. Thanks for the psycho-computers and ominous aliens, Arthur.
Andrew Leonard

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  • Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:10 PM

    He was a better engineer than a writer

    I bet most people forget that he was an engineer. He invented geosynchronous orbital dynamics. I always thought his sci-fi was a little too too engineer-y in the way he'd go into a long description of some exotic tech and when you got to the end, you realized it was a thermocouple or something mundane like that.

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