Not disputing your general point, by Clark's original description of geostationary comsats was in a letter to Wireless World magazine, followed by a paper in th

Not disputing your general point, by Clark's original description of geostationary comsats was in a letter to Wireless World magazine, followed by a paper in the same publication [1]. It wasn't popularised via fiction, although later he did write some fiction that used the idea. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#The_Geostationary_communications_satellite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#The_Geostation...