If you have read any, which was your favorite?

I read Rendezvous with Rama and Childhood's End...

it is hard to choose between them. haha

I'd like to read Fountains of Paradise soon....

I found that one "ok"
I also recommend; "Songs of Distant Earth" and the series of books that followed 2001 i.e. 2010, 2051, 3001

Not to criticize the dead or anything but how does that sentence make sense?  It seems to me that the limits of the possible is found only in failure.

He was a science fiction author. I would guess that he was talking about the sorts of things that science fiction authors do....

They can go beyond what is possible (now).

Those are some spiffy glasses.

You don't have to answer to too many fashion critics when you practically live in your own paradise. The man lived like a king in Sri Lanka for the last 50 years. Probably explains the crazy shirts, too.