Posted on April 5, 2008, 3:30 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
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As time passes, the bookmarks that are supposed to be individual posts wither away in my "TO BLOG" folder and shrink to single-sentences. It happens every month so I will go with the flow and publish them in this one big post for your viewing (time-wasting) pleasure. Here goes: howitshouldhaveended.com has an interesting collection of […]
I started reading Arthur C. Clarke's novel Time's Eye the day before he died. The novel is set in the NWFP, and it is a world where Lahore has been blown up by a nuclear bomb (ouch!). Here's a page from the novel's beginning that reminded me of the recent US missile strikes inside Pakistan: […]
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Posted on March 19, 2008, 10:39 AM, by ReallyVirtual, under
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Death,
Scifi.
Yesterday, I started reading 'Time's Eye' – the first book of the 'A Time Odyssey' series written by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. I went to sleep after reading 22 Chapters, woke up, checked my emails and RSS feeds, and found out that Arthur C. Clarke passed away some time today at his home […]