Oh my, I missed this completely! Clarke was easily among my favorite authors. I can accredit my love for sci-fi stories to him and another favorite, Orson Scott Card. He was definitely a visionary, with wide and sweeping ideas about what the future could hold. And while we now live in the years he wrote about, much of what he said still holds truth, and will for decades to come.
There have been allegations of Clarke being a pedophile. I honestly hope for it to not be true. I don't want to think of one of my favorite authors and a role model in this light, especially at his death.
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/or...12137128.shtml