Arthur C Clarke and Anthony Minghella died today
CBC News | “Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90″
Clarke will be best-remembered for 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on his short-story The Sentinel, but he wasn’t just a writer of science fiction; he also wrote many science articles and invented something called the satellite. Yes, the geo-stationary orbiting kind that makes television and modern meteorology possible. Not too shabby. He was also an early adopter of technology, using something called electronic mail to correspond from Sri Lanka with 2010: Odyssey Two director Peter Hyams in the early 1980s.
CBC News | “English Patient director Anthony Minghella dies after surgery”
Minghella, director of Cold Mountain, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller and, of course, The English Patient, was 54.
Two eras come to a close.
