Science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, who co-wrote the epic film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and raised the idea of communications satellites in the 1940s, died on Wednesday at the age of ninety.
Clarke passed away early Wednesday at a hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived since the Nineteen Fifties. His death was confirmed by Scott Chase, secretary of the non-profit Arthur C. Clarke Foundation.
"He had been taken to hospital in what we had hoped was one of the slings and arrows of being ninety, but in this case it was his final visit," Chase said.
Clarke wrote around one hudred books and countless short stories and articles.
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