Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998Arthur C. Clarke is one of this century's most visionary and versatile thinkers. In the crowning achievement of his extraordinary career, Clarke has collected his ground-breaking non-fiction pieces into one volume. Charting an exceptional career of over six decades, the essays in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! reveal Clarke's piercing mind and lively wit as well as the march of science through our modern age. |
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... century to explain science to the multitude . " - The New York Times Book Review Greetings , Carbon - Based Bipeds ! COLLECTED ESSAYS 1934-1998 Praise for Arthur C. Clarke's Greetings , Carbon - Based. ARTHUR C. Front Cover.
... century to explain science to the multitude . " - The New York Times Book Review Greetings , Carbon - Based Bipeds ! COLLECTED ESSAYS 1934-1998 Praise for Arthur C. Clarke's Greetings , Carbon - Based. ARTHUR C. Front Cover.
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... century . " -Library Journal " In a world filled with despair and fear , Arthur C. Clarke has always come down on the side of human possibility against the forces of impossibility . " -Alvin Toffler " Arthur literally made my Star Trek ...
... century . " -Library Journal " In a world filled with despair and fear , Arthur C. Clarke has always come down on the side of human possibility against the forces of impossibility . " -Alvin Toffler " Arthur literally made my Star Trek ...
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... After Television ? 529 3. The Twenty - First Century : A ( Very ) Brief History 534 Sources Index About the Author About the Editor 541 547 557 558 Acknowledgments Tracing a literary career spanning almost seven decades has Contents xiii.
... After Television ? 529 3. The Twenty - First Century : A ( Very ) Brief History 534 Sources Index About the Author About the Editor 541 547 557 558 Acknowledgments Tracing a literary career spanning almost seven decades has Contents xiii.
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... century that seemed worth preserving has appeared in The Challenge of the Spaceship ( 1959 ) , Voices from the Sky ( 1965 ) , The View from Serendip ( 1977 ) , 1984 : Spring - a Choice of Futures ( 1984 ) , and By Space Possessed ( 1993 ) ...
... century that seemed worth preserving has appeared in The Challenge of the Spaceship ( 1959 ) , Voices from the Sky ( 1965 ) , The View from Serendip ( 1977 ) , 1984 : Spring - a Choice of Futures ( 1984 ) , and By Space Possessed ( 1993 ) ...
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... century later ! The 1920-30 period , just before the Depression , was the heyday of the pulp magazines , of which Amazing and Astounding certainly were . The pulps were the popular fiction of the barely literate masses , who have now ...
... century later ! The 1920-30 period , just before the Depression , was the heyday of the pulp magazines , of which Amazing and Astounding certainly were . The pulps were the popular fiction of the barely literate masses , who have now ...
Contents
IV | 7 |
V | 13 |
VI | 17 |
VIII | 19 |
IX | 26 |
XI | 30 |
XIII | 44 |
XV | 48 |
LXXIX | 329 |
LXXXI | 333 |
LXXXIII | 337 |
LXXXIV | 339 |
LXXXV | 342 |
LXXXVI | 348 |
LXXXVIII | 353 |
LXXXIX | 355 |
XVI | 54 |
XVIII | 58 |
XX | 63 |
XXI | 72 |
XXII | 75 |
XXIII | 81 |
XXIV | 82 |
XXV | 84 |
XXVII | 99 |
XXIX | 102 |
XXX | 105 |
XXXI | 108 |
XXXII | 111 |
XXXIII | 114 |
XXXIV | 119 |
XXXV | 123 |
XXXVI | 132 |
XXXVII | 136 |
XXXVIII | 139 |
XXXIX | 145 |
XLI | 153 |
XLII | 157 |
XLIII | 161 |
XLIV | 165 |
XLV | 168 |
XLVI | 173 |
XLVIII | 180 |
XLIX | 183 |
L | 189 |
LI | 195 |
LII | 196 |
LIII | 204 |
LIV | 210 |
LV | 217 |
LVI | 226 |
LVII | 231 |
LVIII | 240 |
LX | 246 |
LXII | 251 |
LXIV | 259 |
LXV | 264 |
LXVII | 268 |
LXVIII | 277 |
LXX | 281 |
LXXI | 283 |
LXXII | 291 |
LXXIII | 296 |
LXXIV | 305 |
LXXV | 310 |
LXXVI | 313 |
LXXVII | 321 |
LXXVIII | 323 |
XC | 358 |
XCI | 364 |
XCII | 368 |
XCIII | 371 |
XCIV | 374 |
XCVI | 380 |
XCVIII | 385 |
XCIX | 387 |
C | 389 |
CII | 392 |
CIII | 396 |
CIV | 398 |
CVI | 406 |
CVII | 410 |
CIX | 416 |
CX | 418 |
CXI | 421 |
CXIII | 428 |
CXV | 434 |
CXVI | 436 |
CXVII | 438 |
CXVIII | 440 |
CXIX | 448 |
CXX | 450 |
CXXI | 456 |
CXXIII | 460 |
CXXIV | 465 |
CXXVI | 468 |
CXXVII | 472 |
CXXVIII | 475 |
CXXIX | 477 |
CXXX | 479 |
CXXXI | 482 |
CXXXII | 485 |
CXXXIII | 488 |
CXXXV | 490 |
CXXXVI | 492 |
CXXXVII | 496 |
CXXXVIII | 501 |
CXXXIX | 504 |
CXL | 509 |
CXLII | 512 |
CXLIV | 515 |
CXLV | 519 |
CXLVI | 525 |
CXLVII | 529 |
CXLVIII | 534 |
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CLI | 557 |
CLII | 558 |
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