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In 1957, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story in which an astronaut on an orbiting space station happens to glimpse the dead wreckage of an alien spacecraft pass by.(The Week)(In memoriam)(Brief article)

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In 1957, Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story in which an astronaut on an orbiting space station happens to glimpse the dead wreckage of an alien spacecraft pass by. Nobody else sees the wreck and there is no chance the astronaut will see it again. The story encapsulates Clarke's science fiction: He loved outer space, and longed to be there; he dreamed of other civilizations in the universe, and wondered how we would encounter them; and he had a scientist's respect for evidence, weaving his fiction only from what is known or can be ...

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