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Es curioso que
una de las mejores «puestas en escena»
que he visto
de la Tercera Ley de Clarke
(«la tecnología lo bastante avanzada
es indistinguible de la magia»)
no esté en una historia de ciencia ficción,
sino en un relato de espadas y brujería. […]
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What are the terms of the Clarke – Asimov treaty?
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Asimov was required to insist that
Arthur C. Clarke was the best science fiction writer in the world
(reserving second best for himself),
while Clarke was required to insist that
Isaac Asimov was the best science writer in the world
(reserving second best for himself).
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Arthur C. Clarke –
Report on Planet Three
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1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is […]
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Un detalle interesante
de la filmografía de Stanley Kubrick,
es que el grueso de la misma,
incluyendo sus más renombradas películas,
son adaptaciones de cuentos y novelas
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Monday, December 16, 2013
Some Thoughts on the Occasion of Arthur C. Clarke’s Birthday
http://cultivatingkeith.blogspot.com/
2013/12/some-thoughts-on-occasion-of-arthur-c.html
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Hoy, si le parece bien,
podemos retomar un tema
que habíamos tocado en 2001
y hablar otra vez de lo que son
-mejor dicho, somos-
los animales.
Many of my favourite
British writers
had some sort of
imperial connection, […]
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Duncan’s Minisec had been a parting gift from Colin, and he was not yet completely familiar with its controls. There had been nothing really wrong with his old unit, and he had left it behind with some regret; but the casing had become stained and battle-scarred, and he had to agree that it was not elegant enough for Earth. […]
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Duncan felt sorry for poor President Claire Hansen. As a gesture of courtesy, in this centennial year she was not only President of the United States, but also of Earth. And, of course, she had not asked for either job; if she had done so -or even if she had been […]