So long, and thanks for all the thoughts!

If you've never read him, here's a tiny description of what you've missed.

From the BBC News:

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90.

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In the 1940s, he maintained man would reach the moon by the year 2000, an idea dismissed at the time.

He was the author of more than 100 fiction and non-fiction books, and his writings are credited by many observers with giving science fiction a human and practical face. He collaborated on the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey with Kubrick.

[Oh! So much more!]