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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... planet is dominated by the oval of the great red spot and by bands of clouds sculpted into loops and swirls by storms the size of Earth . The details of these atmospheric disturbances could not possibly have been observed by telescopes ...
... planet is dominated by the oval of the great red spot and by bands of clouds sculpted into loops and swirls by storms the size of Earth . The details of these atmospheric disturbances could not possibly have been observed by telescopes ...
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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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