Very early this morning I was among the first humans to walk accross downtown Santa Cruz de la Sierra. It was fresh, and the light of the tropics, transparent and tender. Then I bought the newspaper "El Deber" and found out that the writer Arthur C. Clarke has died in the other side of the tropics, in Sri Lanka. Then, I found myself wondering about 'Rama', outer space and how are we going to react when we finally meet... what?
"Rendezvous with Rama" is a classic among Science Fiction novels. The kind of book that makes you wonder about humankind.
Now he was 90, and wrote lots of books, and was very famous, and lived in the city where he decided to live, Colombo. Maybe it was time to go.
Of course, he was also behind the "2001, A Space Oddysey". The rumour says that Stanley Kubrick read one of his stories, and went a bit further, and then made a phone call to Sri Lanka.
More in Spanish: http://www.ciberama.com/
(lc)
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