http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7304004.stm
Sad news indeed. One of the greatest minds of our time…his influence on speculative fiction writers and readers was incalculable. What a great loss. 
The vision remains
djm
Loathe as I am to throw this word around, Mr. Clarke was a genius.
His last message to the world…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qLdeEjdbWE
Rest in Peace
I just heard about this… 
I was first introduced to “real” science fiction by a high school teacher of mine that suggested I read “Childhood’s End”. Since that time, I think I’ve read every book of Mr. Clarke’s I could get my hands on.
Now my two favorite sci-fi authors (he and Isaac Asimov) have passed.
My wife and I totally loved that television show that he did. Mysteries of the Universe or whatever it was called. He also said at the end if something was probable or a hoax.
We’ll miss him.
yes, sad news…
Indeed…
It’s a much smaller, and impoverished world without him.
Never again will we, as a race..or breed..see such a great mind.
He had a way with words and all.
Slan,
D.
A man with imagination and a brain. A great combination.
He was a visionary. He dreamed up geo stationary satellites among other things
Damn, I hadn’t heard about this. He was an honest-to-God genius. When I was young, I read a nonfiction book by him called Glide Path about the development of radar – he was one of the people on the team. It’s likely that he was in some small part responsible for victory in WW II. He wasn’t only a great author.
90!
Good show Mr. Clarke!
Perhaps he now has the answers of what is truly out there and from whence it all began. Journey on, Dear Sir…
Hey, Denny, let us know if any sky watchers discover a new distant star in the heavens tonight…
When the space elevator finally gets built, I–and probably a great many others–will promptly knock it down again if it doesn’t have his name all over it.
Heinlein, Asimov and now Clarke.
The universe seems a little smaller, somehow.
Of course, Sir Arthur was a Westcountry lad, demonstrating once again that the best is in the west, whether that be Somerset or Lancashire. 
That much larger than life character (in every imaginable way) and close friend of Clarke, Sir Patrick Moore, paid him tribute.
I’ll be right there with ya.
Like Missy, Clarke was my first real science fiction author…it wasn’t until I’d read Clarke that I discovered Asimov, Dick, Heinlein…
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Red Mars” series, the asteroid imported to areosynchronous orbit to anchor the space end of the elevator gets named “Clarke” iirc.
When I first ran across Clarke and read Childhoods End in the late 50s, the old term “fired the imagination” understates my reaction at the time. I have been a lifelong fan since.