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Lan's Lantern 28 it th Si th ir ©o Lmis £antmi 2 8 An Arthur £. £(ar£c Special Table of Contents Arthur C. Clarke................................................... by Bill Ware..Front Cover Tables of contents, artists, colophon,......................................................... 1 Arthur C. Clarke...............................................................Lan.......................................2 I Don’t Understand What’s Happening Here...John Purcell............... 3 Arthur C. Clarke: The Prophet Vindicated...Gregory Benford....4 Of Sarongs & Science Fiction: A Tribute to Arthur C. Clarke Ben P. Indick............... 6 An Arthur C. Clarke Chronology.......................... Robert Sabella............. 8 Table of Artists A Childhood's End Remembrance.............................Gary Lovisi.................... 9 My Hero.................................................................................. Mary Lou Lockhart..11 Paul Anderegg — 34 A Childhood Well Wasted: Some Thoughts on Arthur C. Clarke Sheryl Birkhead — 2 Andrew Hooper.............12 PL Caruthers-Montgomery Reflections on the Style of Arthur C. Clarke and, to a Lesser — (Calligraphy) 1, Degree, a Review of 2061: Odyssey Three...Bill Ware.......... 17 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, About the Cover...............................................................Bill Ware.......................17 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, My Childhood’s End....................................................... Kathy Mar.......................18 21, 22, 24, 28, 31 Childhood’s End.......................Words & Music by Kathy Mar......................19 Ravi Chopra — 11, 16 Arthur C. Clarke: Memories and Musings....Terry O’Brien............20 Greg Frederick — 23 The True and Strange Worlds of Arthur C. Clarke Teddy Harvia — 14, 18 Alan David Laska...21 30 Arthur C. Clarke: The Man Who Made the Monolith Tullio Proni — 27, 33 Alexander Bouchard.. .22 Peggy Ranson — 25, 32 HALlucination 9000........................................................Arthur C. Clarke...23 Tim Ray — 3 The Predictions of Arthur C. Clarke: A Limited Study Diana Stein — 7 Joseph Green............... 24 Bill Ware — Front Cover Arthur C. Clarke and Ben Bova............................. Ben Bova...........................28 Clarke and Temple: The Fans behind the Pros....Harry Bond....29 Short Comments on Arthur C. Clarke................. David Thayer, Roy Hill, David Palter and Larry Nowinski....31 Contributors..................................................................................................................... 33 To Maia, as usual, Why You Are Receiving This iWioittbn, and Arthur C. Clarke, You have a contribution who made this possible. (art, article) in this issue. Lan's Lantern #28 is published and edited by George You've sent me a contribu­ "Lan" Laskowski, 55 Valley Way, Bloomfield Hills, MI tion (to be published in a 48013 USA. Phone: (313) 642-5670. Lan's Lantern is future issue). available for articles, art, letters (calls or post­ Loc received (to be pub­ cards) of comment, even money (US$2), and the whim of lished in a future issue). the editor. The opinions expressed are those of the Trade o^You wanted one contributors, and may or may not be those of the edi­ We're In an apa together. tor. This is Lantern Publication #14, a division of "1 would like you to contri­ LanShack Press Unlimited. Lan's Lantern #28 is copy­ bute to the next special right (c) December, 1988, by George J Laskowski Jr., Issues In 1989: Isaac except where otherwise noted. Contributions (art, art­ Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, icles, reviews, letters) become the property of Lan­ Fritz Leiber, Ted Sturgeon, Shack Press, but will be returned upon request. All A. E. Van Vogt. rights return to the contributors upon publication. This is your last issue un­ less you send me something. 2 //Lan's Lantern #28 ^rom'Mc £/cutor-. by Lan I’ve known Arthur C. Clarke through his pert" about the film among the non-SF writing almost as long as I have been friends I had. reading science fiction. Harry Purvis be­ I reluctantly read "The Nine Billion came an old friend as I read and reread Names of God." I didn’t —no, couldn’t— the stories he narrated in Tales from the see Clarke writing much about religion and "White Hart”. Clarke’s A Fall of Moondust did not want to have the book of the same was read in a single night, as the master name in my collection. However, a friend story teller drew me from one chapter to in graduate school suggested that I indeed the next in this novel of rescue on the read it, and did so after finding the sto­ moon. The innumerable short stories I ry in one of my anthologies. I went out read, the few novels — far fewer than I and bought the book the day after I fin­ should have read — all painted a picture ished it, and read through the rest of the of a highly intelligent, very imaginative stories. I found the contradictory themes person. I have to admit that I did learn with "Nine Billion Names" and the final a lot of my science from him — and espe­ story called "The Star" rather interesting cially a love of the subject which even and knew then that Clarke was experiment­ now keeps me reading Science News every ing with ideas, just as he always had. La­ week. ter he did the same in his novel The Songs Of the many novels that Clarke has of Distant Earth where he postulated that written, I’ve only read seven. Maybe this good and evil did not exist; all we term is something I should not reveal in this as such was merely random chance. Thus special issue of Lan’s Lantern which cele­ "God" was unnecessary. brates his golden anniversary, but I do Childhood’s End was touted as a classic have a couple on my "to-be-read" shelf, in the field, but it took me some time to and the rest are out on the open shelves discover it as such. Friends urged me to and ready for reading. But I recall so remove it from the box in which it was re­ many of the stories I have read vivid­ siding at the time and read it. Religion, ly, and many times the circumstances a- again, with another twist. That got me to round which they were read. thinking a lot more about my own beliefs. "Rescue Party" was a short story in an So I laud Arthur C. Clarke for keeping anthology entitled Great Tales of Action me thinking, and promise that one day I and Adventure which I had to read for one shall take his accumulated novels and col­ of my high school English classes. (I have lections off my shelf and read them all. it in several other Clarke collections.) Long may he live and write! There were maybe two other people in that class who understood the story, and had § § § § § little trouble with it. Most of my class­ mates looked to me for an explanation. I In a note sent to me from Arthur, he happily provided them with one, especially points out that his "Golden Year was 1982 of that last line. — according to David Samuelson’s Biblio­ When I finally saw the film 2001: A graphy." My source was Brian Ashley’s The Space Odyssey, I was filled with questions Illustrated History of Science Fiction. about it. The novel clarified several Whichever it may be, just consider this things, and once again I became "the ex­ issue either on time or long overdue. Lan's Lantern #28// 3 No matter. The movie was still there, sc by John Purcell back I went. Okay. Now a lot of stuff made sense. The transposition from a Young Bowman to an Old Bowman and the Starchild made sense. The Dawn of Man disco scene now made more sense. But what hidden meanings Without a doubt everybody else in this were there in Bowman's voyage into the Arthur C. Clarke tribute issue will have monolith? So once again I reread the book. personal anecdotes about the man. I do And then it was back to the theatre to not. You see, England and Sri Lanka are check out my ideas. not exactly next door to Minneapolis where In two weeks I saw the movie 2001: A I live. All I can add here is to voice Space Odyssey three times and read the what I experienced through 2001: A Space book twice. And you know something? I Odyssey. still don't fully understand it all I fell in love with Clarke's writing — nearly 23 years later! with Against the Fall of Night, A Fall of Thank you, Arthur C. Clarke, Moondust, and other novels I had read in for thoroughly confusing a grade school and junior high. So when 2001 schoolboy's mind. came out in the theaters, I was ecstatic. I dearly loved science fiction movies. And this one was in cinerama, no less. Gosh- wow! My sensawondah kicked into high gear. So with unbridled excitement I dashed off to the Cooper Theater — alone — to see the movie. My first comment at the ending was "What?" A visually stimulating film, but what the heck did it all mean? The next day I bought the book. After reading it carefully, the movie began to make some sense. But I still had questions in my mind pertaining to Kubrick's visual interpretations of items in the book. 4 //Lan's Lantern #28 Arthur Qfartc : jfic 'Prcyhet Vindicated. by Gregory Benford In 1957 I was sitting on the chilly the bounds of scientific law, with elegant deck of the America when news of the Sput­ brevity which brimmed with unstated impli­ nik launch arrived: a lone paragraph in cations, ready-made for extrapolation. the ship’s newspaper. I ground my teeth, Books on futurology date notoriously, yet wanting more information, and thought, this one has not, principally because ”1’11 bet Arthur is beside himself.” Clarke was unafraid of being adventurous. He was. As Arthur Clarke remarks in one In a new introduction, he mentions of the essays in Ascent to Orbit (John reading a review of a Russian book about Wiley, 1984), he had no reason to believe the twenty-first century.
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