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Inside Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World

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At the great science fiction writer’s Sri Lankan residence, our correspondent talks to friends and associates who remember a witty, enigmatic—and much-missed—friend.

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Arthur C Clarke called this place his “ego chamber.”

And now, in a state of disbelief, here I am, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in the office of a man who was arguably the greatest British science fiction writer of all time.

I sit down at his desk.

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