From ’s Childhood’s end: Arthur C. Clarke passes away at age 90: “Clarke didn’t just give us great fiction [like 2001: A Space Odyssey], although that will be a major part of his legacy. He had degrees in science and mathematics, and his nonfiction work is important in a way that’s hard to overestimate”
Childhood’s end: Arthur C. Clarke passes away at age 90
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And yet he wrote some of the most clunky, angular prose in the history of hard sci-fi, an already aesthetically challenged sub-genre.
Not only that, but the fourth book in the Space Odyssey series, 3001, was little more than a copy and paste job from the previous three books. I’m talking word for word copying here.
I realize the guy was like 7o-something when the he “wrote” the book, but c’mon!