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Sad News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7304004.stm)

RIP, what a truly great author. At 90 years though he'd had a pretty good innings.

I only LOVED one of his books. Childhood's End, and that's enough to say that I'm glad he lived to see 90. Rest in peace, old man.

Rendezvous with Rama was the one that grabbed me. Wherever he's gone off to, I hope he has fun.

Same here. Although to be perefectly honest, the 'relationship' between the younger woman and the older man creeped me the hell out.

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Wow, sad indeed. A great run though! I'm with schild on Childhood's End. But the book I most loved was Against the Fall of Night (humanity, a billion years from now). Years later I read his revised version of it (the first version was rejected) called The City and the Stars, but always preferred the original. And then there's Hammer of God which I quite enjoyed.

Everything else I either enjoyed slightly less, or a bit less. The only one I almost flat-out didn't like was Cradle. As I recall, 90% of the book was backstories about transparent characters with the last 10% being interesting if you could get there. Not sure how much of this he wrote versus G. Lee though.

Wow, I thought he was dead already.  I can't feel too sad, though, the man was 90!  90! Hell of a run for anyone.

Yeah, at 90 I'm not sad, but respectful.

21 gun salute and a 40 on the curb, however..

I got emails about this from several librarians because I just plowed through several of his books.

I hope I live to 90! Guy's leaving a great legacy, more than most of us will.

Great author, sad news. I loved the 2001 and 2010 movies, and the 2010 book (never got around to reading 2001). He's had a number of good books that I've read years ago, and nothing recently. I should probably remedy that once I'm through with Jailbird.