1 From the decaying billion-year-old city of Diaspar in Against the Fall of Night (1953), to the giant interstellar interloper in Rendezvous with Rama (1973), to the last visitors from home in Songs of Distant Earth (1986), Clarke's universe is indifferent to humanity's presence, but it's precisely our human qualities which make its immensities explicable and bearable. Clarke's 90th birthday!Ĭlarke has always been my favourite of the 'big three' post-war science fiction writers: he evokes a sense of wonder at the universe that was mostly missing in Asimov and Heinlein, as much as I loved their stories. Today, I'm writing about another one, and it's a happier occasion: it's Sir Arthur C. Nearly a year ago, I wrote about a childhood hero of mine, on the tenth anniversary of his death.
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