For those sci-fi buffs out there, the man who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey has died, at the ripe old age of 90.
taken from an article:
Clarke was the author of The City and the Stars, Childhood's End and 2010, a sequel to A Space Odyssey, which was made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick.
With Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, he was considered one of the "Big Three" of science fiction.
His fiction predicted space travel before rockets were even test fired and foretold computers wreaking havoc with modern life. Clarke was a lone voice of dissent when the world feared that the Y2K bug would lead to mayhem in 2000.
Clarke was born into a British farm family in Somerset on Dec. 16, 1917.
Poor HAL....
