"Clarke himself was gay"

Maybe it no longer needs to be said in this day and age, but Clarke was accused, credibly, of being a pedophile (or, to diminish it with a technicality, hebephile).

It is not quite as abhorrent/chilling as the also credible accusations against Marion Zimmer Bradley--but only because she was teamed up with a Jeffrey Epstein like character.

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selcuka 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Clarke was accused, credibly, of being a pedophile

Genuinely curious, where does the credibility come from? As far as I can remember it turned out to be an outright slander by a tabloid paper.

	▲	hermitcrab 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is covered a bit here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/sep/12/sciencefiction... No idea if he was as much of an insufferable egomaniac as that article makes out. Some decades ago I think it was assumed that homosexuality and paedophilia were pretty much the same thing. Hopefully we are a bit more enlightened now.