Arthur C. Clarke -- RIP

[jj1015]

Arthur C. Clarke, seminal science fiction writer and the man who came up with the idea of communication satellites, died today. I haven't read any of his books in a few years, but when I was younger he was one of the authors that turned me into a bookworm in the first place.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/03/18/obit.clarke/index.html

 

[Wet Dottle]

A great writer and I like his epitaph. I think I read somewhere the he favored outlawing tobacco. Does anyone know anything about it?