{"id":3456,"date":"2008-03-22T20:54:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/03\/22\/moorcock-on-clarke-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-22T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T20:54:35","slug":"moorcock-on-clarke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/03\/22\/moorcock-on-clarke-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Moorcock on Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Moorcock offers this moving, heartfelt <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,,2267284,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">eulogy<\/a> for his friend Arthur C. Clarke.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"genmed\"><b>Quote:<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"quote\">His view of our world, rather like PG Wodehouse\u2019s (whom he resembled physically) didn\u2019t include much room for the Four Horsemen galloping through his rhododendrons. His preferred future was extremely Wellsian, full of brainy people sitting about in togas swapping theorems.<\/p>\n<p>And he was unflappably The Ego. After we watched the preview of <span style=\"font-style: italic\">2001<\/span>, Brian Aldiss, JG Ballard and I all admitted it had left us a bit cold in the visionary department. He took our poor response with his usual amused forgiveness reserved for lesser mortals and told us how many millions the movie had already made in America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,,2267284,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Continued\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/16\/209552692947e571e59899a.jpg\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tumblr-crosspostr-linkback\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2008\/03\/22\/moorcock-on-clarke\/\" title=\"Go to the original post.\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Moorcock on Clarke<\/a> was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\" target=\"_blank\">The Geek Curmudgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Moorcock offers this moving, heartfelt eulogy for his friend Arthur C. 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