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>>>Glad to hear he still around. I hope his future books are better then his "3001" ( and I mean 3001, not 2001).
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>>Yeah, that was God-awful wasn't it! And he got the technology wrong - people talking to each other via
>>wall-mounted, purpose built view screens, rather than hand-held mini phones that can take pictures, or GP computers, et al, like we've already got
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>The book read like "The future according to Authur". Besides, it started off unbelievable: Frank Poole frozen in space for a thousand years. Ya, sure!

I loved the idea of the 1st few Ramas. I read another bummer 2-3 years ago, can't remember the name, co-written with a younger man, about a machine that lets you see into the past. So no-one could commit any crimes as they would be found out, or something. In the end it was used to go back and back through time to the earliest beginnings of hominids and so on. That's about all I remember of it so you can see how good it was.

Apart from that, I've always admired his work for its science "faction".