Sci-fi guru Arthur C. Clarke buried in Sri Lanka

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COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka on Saturday buried visionary British sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke amid tears and tributes from family and fans as the government ordered a minute's silence across the island.

The 90-year-old author, who died at the age of 90 on Wednesday following a brief illness, was buried in a plot owned by his Sri Lankan business partner with whose family he lived for decades.

The government asked people to observe a minute's silence at mid-afternoon when the eminent futurist was laid to rest while newspaper headlines mourned the "final voyage of a titan."

The prolific writer's body had earlier been kept at his home in Colombo's fashionable Barnes Place diplomatic quarter and a large number of students, fans, clergy and politicians gathered to...