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Clarke turns 84
COLOMBO, JAN. 6. The visionary, science fiction sage and eccentric, Arthur C. Clarke, has just turned 84. But the author of ``2001, a Space Odyssey'' still has an eye on the future while also enjoying his past premonitions.
Now confined to a wheelchair, Mr. Clarke stays in touch with the world from a high-tech den in his home in an exclusive residential area in the centre of Colombo. ``It is sort of a sigh of relief rather than a let-down,'' he said of the end of 2001, which brought a re-release of the movie, plus numerous special events for Mr. Clarke, widely acclaimed as a prophet of the space age.
Mr. Clarke is probably most famous for ``2001'', which became a film classic and won him an Oscar nomination with the director, Stanley Kubrick, in 1968, but is also a legend in the scientific and space communities for forecasting many of the extraordinary achievements of the past century.
- Reuters
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