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NYRblog - Playing Chess With Kubrick - The New York Review of Books In the early 1960s, I wrote an appreciative essay for The New Yorker about the science fiction of Arthur Clarke. Not long after I got a letter from Clarke written from Sri Lanka where he lived. He tol…

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