I've had 48 years enjoying not only his science fiction, but his books on marine archaeology and the Great Barrier Reef. I think the first book of his that I read was "Childhood's End" when I was around 11 back in the early days of the Space Race. Saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in a theater is downtown Milwaukee -- several times. Several times more on the big screen at drive-ins (remember those?) before they hacked it up for television.

What a writer! What a mind!

And I still have so many of his books to go.

Linn