Science fiction lost another giant today, with the passing of Arthur C Clarke.

Most everyone remembers his involvement with “2001, A Space Odyssey“, but he wrote a huge amount of other “hard” science fiction work, stuff that is very set in “reality” as opposed to work such as my own “soft” science fiction, that has “plausible” technology.

I grew up surrounded by the novels of Arthur C Clarke, and his peers such as Robert A Heinlein and Isaac Asimov … In many ways, they “taught” me how to write science fiction.  I guess it’s a sign I’m getting older when another one of the influences on my writing dies.