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March 19, 2008 03:04 AM UTC
17 Comments
David, how does one as erudite as you are defend some of the antics of the Polis campaign?
Great commentary on the passing of a truly gifted writer. Thank you sincerely for making it,
What the word ‘antics’ means.
A great loss.
He was probably the strongest of the three (I assume that the other two you reference as the greatest of the golden age were Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov) in predicting future scientific achievements and their effect on society. He also told a great story, and rarely had characters resort to violence. His were great adventure stories of exploration, not action. I grew up on all three, and have a hard time finding anyone who writes sci-fi quite like they did. Both entertaining, and still thought provoking.
There are good writers out there, it’s just hard to stand out from those who blazed the trails that they follow.
Another star has fallen from the sky.
Thanks!
Robert Heinlein was a genius at compelling shoot em ups – and they were more than that. And then with Stranger in a Strange Land he gave us a story that to this day is still one of the best ever.
Isaac Asimov was great at weaving in how science/technology changed society and culture. The Robot & Foundation series were both amazing. And Nightfall remains I think the best short story of all time.
And as you said Arthur C Clarke was the one who’s stories went the deepest into my brain.
We’ve had tons of other amazing authors from Andre Norton to Harlan Ellison to Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game is incredible). But by the standards of any decade those three stood as giants, sometimes equalled but never surpassed.
And now the last of the 3 is gone.
I do not get the love of Ender’s Game. Sure it was fun when I was a self-centered teen, but it is not very well written. I would not rank him in the top ten of living SF writers, even if anyone who’s SF is too fantasy were excluded.
One of the greatest writers and futurists of all time. I grew up with his work as a constant inspiration.
One of those things always in the back of my mind in life, was to someday make the pilgrimage to Sri Lanka to pay homage to him. Alas.
A truly great man, a truly great legacy.
And a little known and near-certain fact is that he batted for my team. For whatever reason it was a great solace to me at the time when I found that out (yes, you can google it and see the evidence as well).
May the man live on in the world of tomorrow that was always his native domain.
Jared Polis
http://www.polisforcongress.com
If they ever do build his space elevator (of which the optimal earth terminus is his property at the Southern tip of Sri Lanka) I hope they name it after him.
I also had figured if I ever had to go to India that I would try and stop there to meet him. I once had a job offer to head a team doing the computer game for Rendezvous with Rama and the biggest selling point was that I would be flown out there to meet him. Would have been cool.
It is a pity. I was hoping he would drop by the convention. No, not the DNCC.
http://www.denvention3.org/
The Hugo Award is being presented in Denver this year, Aug. 6th – 10th
Reading ‘Rendezvous’ was a significant step on my wanting to become a writer. He will be missed.
I sent an email to my daughters about a family outing to go to the Denvention and got the reply:
Worldcon trends very old with money for the most part. So, yeah, not a great place to find a boyfriend. Conventions with a younger demographic are pretty good though. Women usually have their pick of the young guys. Except for Yaoi Con where any straight man who dares go and has anything like a good physique will have groupies galore.
Obama is openly opposed to spending money on Space Research. He came to Colorado and Wyoming and said it right to our faces.
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com…
I can site a hundered more.
If you only honor ACC for his stories you missed the whole point.
He was a visionary that helped make manned space exploration a reality.
Obama would kill Clarks vision to put more money into a grossly flawed public education system. A position the Left applauds.
Alligator tears indeed.
From the link:
“The early education plan will be paid for by delaying the NASA Constellation Program for five years, using purchase cards and the negotiating power of the government to reduce costs of standardized procurement, auctioning surplus federal property, and reducing the erroneous payments identified by the Government Accountability Office, and closing the CEO pay deductibility loophole. …”
The Constellation Program is NASA’s $104 billion effort to send astronauts back to the moon in the 2018-2020 time frame, as an initial step toward wider space exploration and settlement. Although the policy paper doesn’t lay out the figures, our own First Read political blog said Obama would keep Constellation on a $500 million-per-year maintenance diet during the five-year delay – with the implication that the timeline would be shifted to 2023-2025 for the first 21st-century moon landing.”
Unlike the “Right”, which thinks it just fine to pour $4 TRILLION dollars down the rathole in Iraq, Obama’s approach, IMHO, seems prudent.
It’s essentially corporate welfare for defense contractors being run by people who believe the earth is 6,000 years old and the global warming is a good thing because it means the end times are coming.
Given the deteriorating political situation in Russia, a far better short-term plan will be to spend NASA’s manned space flight resources developing the replacement for the Space Shuttle and getting it in service ASAP so that we don’t have to count on the Russians to service the space station (let alone mount a rescue mission on short notice).
“Let us now embark upon this great journey into the stars to find whatever may await us.”
-John McCain on America’s Space Program.
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And let us borrow more money from China in order to make it happen.