OT - Writer Arthur C Clarke dies at 90

In article id,
Dr J R Stockton wrote:

The writings of one who fails to spell correctly either the names of two
famous authors or that of the species which one wrote about are unlikely
to be worthy of consideration.

I'll know just how much consideration to give *your* future articles.

-- Richard
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:wq

Dr J R Stockton wrote:
In uk.sci.astronomy message , Tue,
25 Mar 2008 12:45:41, catzz66 posted:

Among other things, Clark refers to his acquaintance with J.R.R.
Tolkein and relates an event where Tolkein and he were seated next to
each other at lunch. Clark says that Tolkein pointed to a smallish
man, his book editor, and said "That's where I got the idea for the
Hobbitt." Now we know.

The writings of one who fails to spell correctly either the names of two
famous authors or that of the species which one wrote about are unlikely
to be worthy of consideration.


http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pedantic

On Mar 23, 1:13 pm, "
wrote:

Take away his belief in monkeys and a strict adherence to lack of
facts and all you are left with is an obvious idea about geostationary
orbits. A logical conclusion that only requires the escape velocity
and orbital period of any celestial object.

It's not as if he invented any hardware to do the job.

But then I found his work arduous and unsatisfying. Asimov was a
little more childish and rather inclined to crescendos of counter-
attacking but ultimately they were of the same genre of losers that
provided nothing.

Get over yourself. :-)