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selcuka 2 hours ago

> 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.