Arthur C. Clarke dies in Sri Lanka at age 90 , he said . ` ` 2001 : A Space Odyssey '' was perhaps his best known work . He and Stanley Kubrick shared Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay . In a paper written for the radio journal `` Wireless World '' in 1945 , he suggested that artificial satellites hovering in a fixed spot above Earth could be used to relay telecommunications signals across the globe . Clarke had lived in Sri Lanka since the 1950s .
Arthur C. Clarke dies in Sri Lanka at age 90 , he said . ` ` 2001 : A Space Odyssey '' was perhaps his best known work . He and Stanley Kubrick shared Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay . Clarke had lived in Sri Lanka since the 1950s .