What words can be used to describe one such as Mr. Clarke? He wrote such mind blowing objects such as… “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “2010: Odyssey Two” along with describing a world of wireless communications before they could even be conceived. He had met and admittedly was fooled by Uri Geller but never lost his search for what could be out there for humans to evolve into.

Author Arthur C. Clarke dies - CNN.com

(CNN) — Author Arthur C. Clarke, whose science fiction and non-fiction works ranged from the script for “2001: A Space Odyssey” to an early proposal for communications satellites, has died at age 90, associates have said.

Clarke had been wheelchair-bound for several years with complications stemming from a youthful bout with polio and had suffered from back trouble recently, said Scott Chase, the secretary of the nonprofit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.

He died early Wednesday — Tuesday afternoon ET — at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the 1950s, Chase said.

“He had been taken to hospital in what we had hoped was one of the slings and arrows of being 90, but in this case it was his final visit,” he said.

Was he a great man? Was he without fault? Does he deserve only praise?
Whom am I to say… What he is, or was… was a person that looked life in it’s face… worked hard and played harder, and mostly didn’t conform to what others had decided what should be.
I remember an interview he had done, many years ago and was fascinated that he was wearing a skirt… it just is one of those things that made one stop and think.