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WHEN Arthur C. Clarke died earlier this year aged 90, he bequeathed the world a vast library of science fiction, including such classics as Childhood’s End and, with Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey. He also pointed out that geosynchronous satellites could be used as communication relays, which is now the basis of much modern telecommunication, and popularised the concept of the space elevator.
The Last Theorem is his aptly titled final novel, and by all accounts . He began it in 2002, but was plagued by ill-health. Worried that the…
