Comments on: Farewell Arthur C Clarke http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/sf-and-gaming/sf/farewell-arthur-c-clarke/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: J Parr http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/sf-and-gaming/sf/farewell-arthur-c-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-3004 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:52:06 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2008/03/22/farewell-arthur-c-clarke/#comment-3004 Sir Arthur’s “Islands In The Sky” was my first sci-fi book. A brilliant look at living & working in space that really fired the imagination in the days of the space race. As you say, he made the engineering & physics totally believable. And equally, he made it accessible in a way that anyone could understand at any age.

]]> By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/sf-and-gaming/sf/farewell-arthur-c-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-2996 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:01:02 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2008/03/22/farewell-arthur-c-clarke/#comment-2996 I think my introduction to SF was Asimov as well (“Pebble in the Sky” followed by “Foundation”)

]]> By: Steve Jones http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/sf-and-gaming/sf/farewell-arthur-c-clarke/comment-page-1/#comment-2991 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:39:38 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2008/03/22/farewell-arthur-c-clarke/#comment-2991 While Arthur C Clarke didn’t actually introduce me to science-fiction (that honour went to Asimov via a Foundation Trilogy Christmas present) he was my first contact with first contact stories just a little later.

I may well dig out ‘Rendezvous With Rama’ over the holiday and raise a glass to the great man.

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