Arthur C. Clarke has died, at 90. He was the last of the so-called Big Three science fiction writers of the mid-century. Writing about a great writer is tricky, since nothing you write will be as good as what he wrote. Still, what's the point of a blog, otherwise?
Clarke was more scientist as a writer than the other two, Asimov and Heinlein. It always seemed to me that where Asimov and Heinlein tried to grasp what technology might mean for people, Clarke was more satisfied playing around with the technology itself. Childhood's End was an exception to this, of course, but except for that, he seemed to take it for granted that space was as interesting for its own sake, as much as for anything that it might do to people.
It was, and if they ever need a web developer or financial analyst up there, I'll be first in line.
Others, with more to say include: Bruce Webster, Ad Week, John Derbyshire, George Wiman, Paul Levinson, Matt Bowles, Charlie Martin.
