MAGAZINE
ARTHUR CLARKE'S WORLDS OF WONDER
BOOKS (Completed)
A MEETING WITH MEDUSA/THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SKY (Time/Warner)
THE LION OF COMARRE/AGAINST THE FALL OF
NIGHT "
THE TREASURE OF THE GREAT REEF (Byron Preiss)
THE REEFS OF TAPROBANE ( " )
BOOKS (Pending)
ARTHUR C CLARKE & C.S. LEWIS: A CORRESPONDENCE
INTRODUCTION: THE INVISIBLE MAN - H.G. WELLS (Random House)
THE LAST MEN IN THE MOON (Paul Preuss/Byron Preiss)
A TIME ODYSSEY (with Stephen Baxter)
(Incorporating TIME'S EYE and NOVA ) ( " )
SOFTLY COME THE DRAGONS (with Charles Pellegrino)
MOVIES (Optioned)
RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA (Morgan Freeman: Revelations Entertainment)
CHILDHOOD'S END (Universal/Beacon)
THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE (Susan Phillips)
EVENTS (Action completed)
SIR FRED HOYLE'S UNIVERSE (videotape) Cardiff: June 24-6
WORLD TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT (videotape, NYC: 21/22
July)
(Awaiting action)
THE PROMISE OF SPACE: Address to the United
Nations
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY: FUTURE OF SCIENCE (with U.S.
Secretaries of Defense and State: videotape) Calif. Sept 19
BIS 70TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR: SCIENCE MUSEUM (videotape) Oct 30
25 Jun 2002
EGOGRAM 2001
Obviously this year, of all years, deserves an Egogram but it will be a
short one, as befits a year indelibly stained with the events of 11
September. (I am still spooked by the fact that, in 1973, I chose that
very date in Rendezvous with Rama for the worst disaster in human
history. And it's now been pointed out to me that 11 September was used
in one of the 'Modesty Blaise' novels back in 1966: what's going on
here?)
I am happy to say that my adopted family is fine we were all together for
Christmas, as the two older girls, Cherene and Tamara, were back from
University in Australia. They are now beautiful young ladies, and Melinda
is already over 12. My beloved Chihuahua, Pepsi, must be nearing that
age, but is still quite active, which is more than I can say for myself
as I am now completely wheel-chaired. However, I can still play a vicious
game of Table Tennis, as long as I can lean on the table.
I lost one good friend during the year Roger Caras, on
19th of February. He was Stanley Kubrick’s
Vice President and I am also grieved that Stanley did not live to see the
year he made famous.
Although I hope never to leave Sri Lanka again, I did the next best thing
by appearing as a convincing 3-D Hologram at the Comdex Exhibition in Las
Vegas on 13 November. That same week, 16th
November, brother Fred represented me very adequately at the Arthur
Clarke GALA at the Playboy Mansion, and was able to hobnob with the
people who were really there, such as Patrick Stewart, Buzz
Aldrin, James Cameron and Morgan Freeman who is now filming
RAMA.
I’ve now become involved in the Internet and took part in a Web
discussion with Leonardo DiCaprio, on 28th
September, in aid of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Apparently there are
numerous Websites devoted to me, but I have never had time to look at
them.
I have managed to get away from my Colombo office several times to stay
at Scuba Villa, 101 kms south of here, and to visit the Arthur Clarke
Model School at Baddegama, celebrating its first anniversary.
Now that I am safely past my 84th
birthday, I really have nothing to grumble about - even my memory seems
unimpaired, though sometimes the access time is longer than I would
prefer.
Arthur Clarke
28 December 2001.
2002
version 17 April