It inspired me to check him out, and I ended up picking up this collection, introduced by JB Priestly (‘An Inspector Calls’), in a charity shop.Ī recurring theme running through many of the stories is that Earth will be destroyed or rendered inhabitable by humanity. Clarke passed away shortly afterwards, age 90. I recently read an account by Paul Theroux of when he met Clarke in Colombo in 2006. Arthur C Clarke, sci-fi extraordinaire from Minehead in Somerset, England, spent most of his long life in Sri Lanka.
