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Old 20th October 2006, 06:56 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Re: Arthur C Clarke

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Originally Posted by dragonqueen
I've read quite a few of his books, the fiction are good, but in the non fiction, I find he has quite a big head, saying how great he is. It's annoying, he may be good, but that's for others to find out, not for him to go telling everyone
Clarke is rather modest compared to Asimov, who was blowing his own trumpet ceaselessly. So much so, in fact, that it rather turned into a joke.

I like Rendezvous with Rama and the Odyssey series, but when I first read A Fall of Moondust, I was blown away. Clarke has been criticized for writing flat characters, but that book at least had characters who were anything but flat. I really like The Deep Range as well.
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