Usually I don't post about deaths of famous figures, but Arthur C Clarke was something special. This is the main who brought us the notion of a communications satellite (which he never patented) and the man who wrote 2001 and shared an Oscar with Kubrick for the screenplay adaptation.

I read every single piece of Arthur C Clarke's science fiction I could find when I was younger. The 2001 novels, the Rama novels, the short stories, etc. It was all so brilliant and he created such immersive futuristic worlds and scenarios.

 

`Come, we shall have some fun now!' thought Alice. `I'm glad they've begun asking riddles.--I believe I can guess that,' she added aloud.

`Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?' said the March Hare.

`Exactly so,' said Alice.

`Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on.

`I do,' Alice hastily replied; `at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know.'

`Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. `You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!'

`You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, `that "I
like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!'

`You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'

`It IS the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.

(from http://www.gutenberg.org)