Arthur C. Clarke is Dead
Alas, one of the old sci-fi Grandmasters is dead. Author of more than 100 sci-fi books including 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke died in Sri Lanka at the age of 90. At least he lived long enough to see HAL freak out, although he did die a couple of years before we shot John Lithgow into space. And of course, he didn’t even come close to seeing the West German-alien orgies of 2069: A Sex Odyssey. Alas!
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.