"Its origin and purpose, still a total mystery..."

The last of the Big Three is dead: Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001 and many other stories, died in Sri Lanka today (or tomorrow, I guess, considering time zones) at the age of 90.

Who will pick up the SF mantle?



"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative."

(photo from http://www.nndb.com/people/725/000023656/)