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Old 14-December-2007, 10:01 PM
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I think you are confusing Clarke and Heinlein. Harriman was a character in Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold The Moon" and "Requiem". AFAIK, Clarke never particularly advocated commercialization of space travel.
Yes, I don't recall Clarke pushing commercial space to any degree. I read and liked nearly everything Clarke wrote up through Imperial Earth. After that, I read some of his recent books, but not all, and consider them weaker than his earlier material. That's especially true of the collaborations (for instance, I read one of the Rama sequels and decided I didn't need to read any more).

But, Clarke definitely is one of the Golden Age Science Fiction writers.
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