Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and a man considered one of the world's top science fiction writers, has died.
He was 90. An aide announced his death Tuesday in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he had lived for many years.
Clarke was the author of The City and the Stars, Childhood's Ends and 2010, a sequel to A Space Odyssey, which was made into a movie by Stanley Kubrick.
With Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein he was considered one of the "Big Three" of science fiction.
