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SCIENCE FICTION WRITER  ROBERT J. SAWYER  Best Novel Hugo and Nebula Award Winner SFWRITER.COM > Nonfiction > Arthur C. Clarke   Arthur C. Clarke     by Robert J. Sawyer   Copyright © 2006 by Robert J. Sawyer All Rights Reserved. I wrote the following appreciation of Arthur C. Clarke on Monday, February 13, 2006. "Arthur C. Clarke has been the single greatest influence on me,¨ and, in fact, I just quoted one of Clarke's dicta on writing¨ ('the best way to end a novel is by opening up a new vista that¨ allows the reader to write the sequel in his or her own mind') to¨ my editor. Indeed, given that so much of my own work is based on¨ exploring the science-vs.-religion conflict, I'd have to say that¨ the stories 'The Nine Billion Names of God' and 'The Star' (plus¨ the essay 'God and Einstein' from Report on Planet Three)¨ had a biger impact on me than anything else I've ever read.¨ Clarke's liberal humanism also meant an enormous amount to me,¨ and was a needed antidote, at least in the eyes of this¨ bleeding-heart-liberal Canadian, to the conservative politics I¨ was seeing in so much American hard-SF. Long live Sir Arthur!"   More Good Reading   Convention book tributes: Rob's tribute to Isaac Asimov Rob's tribute to Hal Clement Rob's tribute to Edo van Belkom Michael A. Burstein's tribute to Robert J. Sawyer Robert J. Sawyer's Guest of Honorships

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