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Last Wednesday, Arthur C. Clarke, the renowned science fiction writer, died at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Clarke, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998, is often placed in the pantheon of great science fiction Writers along with the likes of Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Ray Bradbury. The honor is justly deserved. During his 90-year life, Clarke wrote nearly 100 novels dealing with that strange, fantastic stuff called science...
...peer into my ears and nose because her eyes just weren’t strong enough? Cyborg. The woman who booked my appointment, using a telephone to talk to me instead of just yelling across campus to try to reach me? Cyborg. I confess that I felt some Asimov-flavored robot anxiety (something Lamp doesn’t treat) when I started to wonder where machine ends and the person begins...
...into a positive community that can make a major contribution to a more peaceful, more stable world.” Humanists currently hold a wide base in the cultural and scientific world. Author Kurt Vonnegut served as honorary president of the American Humanist Association, and science-fiction author Issac Asimov served as its president until his death in 1992. However, humanism is much less represented in the political sphere, said Epstein. “There is only one openly humanist politician currently serving in Congress, Senate, or governor offices,” Epstein said. “We know that...
...sample bits and pieces of Macbeth, Jane Eyre, 1984 or Catch-22 in a literature class; we would expect students to read an entire work. Just so with the Bible. My enthusiasm for this proposal is not entirely selfless. I subscribe to the position espoused by the great Isaac Asimov: "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived...
...best of all possible worlds - making amends to Falwell, sparking attacks from Greenwich Village lefties and generating tons of press attention in the process. Even better, the students might actually remember what got said at their commencement speech - which is more than I can say for Isaac Asimov, the late science fiction writer, who addressed my class at Columbia College, or Michel Sovern, the university president, who addressed the entire school. I have no idea what either talked about...