Re: Clarke - two questions

"Anthony Nance" <nance@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Today's USAToday has a very nice half-page appreciation article
> (written by Cesar G. Soriano, special for USAToday).
>
> There's an in-set box titled "1953-73: A Collection of Clarke Titles",
> and subtitled "Arthur C. Clarke's expansive body of work includes
> these seminal titles:".  Listed are these five works:
>
> - Childhood's End
> - The City and the Stars
> - The Nine Billion Names of God (collected short stories, 1951-56)
> - 2001: A Space Odyssey
> - Rendezvous With Rama
>
> It is not said why they stuck to 1953-73.
>


They were being kind - sticking to (roughly) the period when he could
still
write.

And I say that as somebody who grew up on his work in the 50s and 60s.
--

Mike Stone - Peterborough, England

Always drink upriver from the herd (song title)