It sounds like science fiction. And it was.
Sitting around watching television might not be as useless as you think. Certain shows have been remarkably accurate in their forecasts of the future.
Astronomy Magazine editor David Eicher says Arthur C. Clarke shaped our ideas of space and space exploration.
Author Arthur C. Clarke, whose science fiction and non-fiction works ranged from the script for "2001: A Space Odyssey" to an early proposal for communications satellites, has died at age 90, associates have said.
Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90
Posted September 18, 2006
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