Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. Clarke penned many classic science fiction novels such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End,


Dr. Tony Phillips' childhood copy of A Fall of Moondust.

A Fall of Moondust, Rendezvous with Rama and more than 80 others. But he was not limited to fiction. Clarke is widely credited for conceptualizing geosynchronous orbits (sometimes called Clarke orbits) and communication satellites, and he posited Clarke's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

His work was an inspiration to countless young writers and scientists of the middle to late 20th century. "Although his personal odyssey here on Earth is now over, his vision lives on through his writing," says Alan Stern, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington DC. "He will be sorely missed."

Author Arthur C. Clarke dies
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Arthur C. Clarke Wikipedia

Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the epic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, has died at age 90. Visionary author Clarke had fans around the world. He died early Wednesday at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s. Clarke and director Stanley Kubrick shared an Academy Award nomination for best adapted screenplay for "2001." The film grew out of Clarke's 1951 short story, "The Sentinel," about an alien transmitter left on the moon that ceases broadcasting when humans arrive. He is widely credited with introducing the idea of the communications satellite, the first of which were launched in the early 1960s. But he never patented the idea, prompting a 1965 essay that he subtitled, "How I Lost a Billion Dollars in My Spare Time." Clarke wrote dozens of novels, collections of short stories, and more than 30 non-fiction works during a career as a writer that began in the 1950s. He served as a television commentator during several of the Apollo moon missions and co-wrote a 1970 account of the first lunar landing with the Apollo 11 crew