Arthur C. Clarke turns 90 today. Mr. Clarke is the author of such science ficiton greats as Childhood's End, 2001: A Space Odyssesy, Rendevous With Rama and too many to list here. He's considered one of the Big Three of Science Fiction writers, the other two being Robert Heinlien and Isaac Asimov and the only one of the three still alive. When I was growing up I read everything of his I could get my hands on. He has been living in Sri Lanka since 1956. In 1988 he was diaganosed with poilo and is confined to a wheelchair. His many predictions in articles in the 1950's were of radar, satellites and many other at the time science fiction but we now consider science fact.Mr. Clarke's stories fell into that camp of science fiction known as hard science, where the science in the stories always was as accurate as could be. His most famous "law" is: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
If you've never read anything of his give it a try. He has a large body of novels as well as short story collections out there. I remember the first time I read Rendevous with Rama and just being in awe of the story.
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