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Pages: 1 Rick Woods Postmaster Reged: 01/27/05 Loc: Inner Solar System Arthur C. Clarke       #5616047 - 01/10/13 06:50 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I was looking through my fiction library, and was surprised and pleased to see I had copies of the two books I consider Clarke's masterpieces, "The City and The Stars" and "Childhood's End". It's been a long time since I read them, so, since I'm laid up with a cold, I read them both again. I see why I was so enamored of Clarke's writing when I was a kid; nobody else ever had the grand vision the he had. He dealt with the vast epics spanning billions of years with such feeling, emotion, and intelligence! No wonder he's in the Pantheon of Greats! He and Bradbury - that's about it for the top tier, in my book. (I never felt Asimov was even close to either of them.) Clarke, Bradbury, Armstrong, Moore - all the heroes from my youth are passing on! Post Extras:       okieav8r Carpal Tunnel Reged: 03/01/09 Loc: Oklahoma! Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: Rick Woods]       #5616279 - 01/10/13 09:14 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I'd like to read those two myself Rick. Also, I would love to get a copy of 'Rendevous With Rama'. I've heard it's also a really good book. Post Extras:       Rick Woods Postmaster Reged: 01/27/05 Loc: Inner Solar System Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: okieav8r]       #5616495 - 01/10/13 11:29 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   I read that one a long time ago; but I don't remember much about it. Post Extras:       rmollise Postmaster Reged: 07/06/07 Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: Rick Woods]       #5616524 - 01/10/13 11:56 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   If you haven't done so, read _Against the Fall of Night_, which Clarke expanded into The City and the Stars. I like it better. Post Extras:       Spaced Post Laureate Reged: 03/01/05 Loc: Tacoma, Washington, USA Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: rmollise]       #5616599 - 01/11/13 02:03 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   "Against the Fall of Night" was, so far as I remember, the first sci fi I read, probably when I was in 5th grade. Masterful vision. Post Extras:       Rick Woods Postmaster Reged: 01/27/05 Loc: Inner Solar System Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: rmollise]       #5617184 - 01/11/13 12:26 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: If you haven't done so, read _Against the Fall of Night_, which Clarke expanded into The City and the Stars. I like it better. I will, thanks! Post Extras:       Tony Flanders Postmaster Reged: 05/18/06 Loc: Cambridge, MA, USA Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: Rick Woods]       #5617367 - 01/11/13 02:28 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: No wonder he's in the Pantheon of Greats! He and Bradbury - that's about it for the top tier, in my book. It's really a different genre, but Stanislaw Lem is my favorite science-fiction writer. Post Extras:       Rick Woods Postmaster Reged: 01/27/05 Loc: Inner Solar System Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: Tony Flanders]       #5617502 - 01/11/13 03:57 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   He's new to me - I'll look him up. After reading the two Clarke greats mentioned above, I poked around to see what else I had by him. I found "Islands In the Sky", which I'd never read before. Quite an anticlimax, I'm afraid. It's basically "Bobby Blastoff - Junior Space Cadet and his Adventure in Space". Just the thing for a 12-year-old back in the 50's. *sigh* Another one for the donate pile. Post Extras:       rmollise Postmaster Reged: 07/06/07 Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: Tony Flanders]       #5618722 - 01/12/13 10:08 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: Quote: No wonder he's in the Pantheon of Greats! He and Bradbury - that's about it for the top tier, in my book. It's really a different genre, but Stanislaw Lem is my favorite science-fiction writer. I love Solaris (the novel), and like the screenplays for some of the films he worked on (First Spaceship on Venus), but for me the big three still RULE: Clarke Heinlein Asimov Followed by Niven Pournelle Varley Post Extras:       Rick Woods Postmaster Reged: 01/27/05 Loc: Inner Solar System Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: rmollise]       #5618880 - 01/12/13 11:35 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Heinlein did the Billy Blastoff type stuff a lot better than Clarke did. (In addition to all his more serious stuff, of course!) I was one of the generation massively influenced by "Stranger in a Strange Land". Living in California in the 60's certainly helped there! But, I was really shocked when I learned what Heinlein's motive was in writing it. Post Extras:       StarStuff1 Carpal Tunnel Reged: 04/01/07 Loc: South of the Mason-Dixon Line Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: Rick Woods]       #5619428 - 01/12/13 04:46 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   After 40+ years I re-read "Stranger..." a couple of years ago and enjoyed it very much again. Guess I'm not into this enough to know but: What was the motive? Post Extras:       Rick Woods Postmaster Reged: 01/27/05 Loc: Inner Solar System Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: StarStuff1]       #5619569 - 01/12/13 06:12 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   OK, this is third hand; I was told this a long time ago, by someone who supposedly met Heinlein at a party and asked him about it. So this is hearsay. But, his motive was supposedly to see if he could make the idea of group sex and ritual cannibalism palatable to the reading public of the day. Can you grok that?!? Post Extras:       StarStuff1 Carpal Tunnel Reged: 04/01/07 Loc: South of the Mason-Dixon Line Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: Rick Woods]       #5619906 - 01/12/13 10:11 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   GROK!!! Post Extras:       droid rocketman Reged: 08/29/04 Loc: Conneaut, Ohio Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: StarStuff1]       #5623544 - 01/14/13 10:19 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   No one here has the Rama series, Ive got all of em. Of course it was co authored, so not entirely Clarkes Post Extras:       PhilCo126 Carpal Tunnel Reged: 01/14/05 Loc: coastline of Belgium Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: droid]       #5623851 - 01/15/13 05:46 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Please check the British Interplanetary Society: http://www.bis-space.com/2012/12/15/7958/remembering-arthur-c-clarke Post Extras:       rmollise Postmaster Reged: 07/06/07 Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: droid]       #5623943 - 01/15/13 07:55 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: No one here has the Rama series, Ive got all of em. Of course it was co authored, so not entirely Clarkes Well...Rendezvous with Rama was all Clarke. The others? I've read 'em. Disappointing. I liked the way the original left some mystery to Rama. Post Extras:       droid rocketman Reged: 08/29/04 Loc: Conneaut, Ohio Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: rmollise]       #5624097 - 01/15/13 09:57 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Im kinda weird I guess, I read one book , and if theres more in the series, Ive gotta get em too. For instance the Foundation series, read one, next thing you know I own em all, same thing with the Rama books, read the first and had to have em all. Goofy I know. lol Post Extras:       Rick Woods Postmaster Reged: 01/27/05 Loc: Inner Solar System Re: Arthur C. Clarke [Re: rmollise]       #5624270 - 01/15/13 11:59 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: Quote: No one here has the Rama series, Ive got all of em. Of course it was co authored, so not entirely Clarkes Well...Rendezvous with Rama was all Clarke. The others? I've read 'em. Disappointing. I liked the way the original left some mystery to Rama. Yeah, that was Clarke's way. He didn't feel the need to explain things or have everything neatly wrapped up at the end of a story. He gave us credit for enough intelligence to supply our own explanations. I read the first one before there were any sequals; I'm glad I never looked at the others. Post Extras:       Pages: 1

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