The year 2010 has arrived, but humans have yet to travel out to the gas giants of our solar system as portrayed by Arthur C. Clarke in his book "2010: Odyssey Two" — much less unearth alien artifacts on the moon.
Clarke was more than just a science fiction legend — he was a physicist, and in 1945, the same year he sold his first story, he was the first to propose the concept of geostationary telecommunications satellite networks, more than a decade before the first orbital rocket flight. He died in 2008 at age 90.
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Quotehe was the first to propose the concept of geostationary telecommunications satellite networks, more than a decade before the first orbital rocket flight
they named the location of geostationary satellites as the Clarke belt because of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_belt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_belt)
Mac.
I like a lot of the old sci fi books.
I have just started Voyagers by Ben Bova. Some of them don't age so much as others.
Recently I read The Sixth Winter, published 1979, by Douglas Orgill & John Gribbin. You would not think you were reading such an old book, very good.
Fay, try reading "Rendevous with Rama", by Arthur C Clarke and the follow-up books, culminating in "Rama Revealed". Absolutely amazing and enthralling. They are books you have to keep reading......
Also some of the Isacc Asimov books. Again, can get heavy but worth bashing on with. J.G. Ballard is another excellent author.
Doug.
I probably read them all, years ago, as sci-fi is all I used to read.
That's all I used to read too. You should try some John Wyndham books, The Chrysalids, Midwich Cuckoos, Kraken Wakes, Chocky and Day of the Triffids etc. These were the books that really got me reading in my teens together with Arthur C Clark, Michael Moorcock, E.E. Doc Smith (sorry!) and Frank Herbert. Wasn't too much into Asimov though I think I did read one or two. Much like my LP's I still have all my old books, not sure I'll ever get rid of them.