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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... Rockets and Radar XV xvii Introduction 1. Dunsany , Lord of Fantasy 2. Rockets 3. The Coming Age of Rocket Power 4. Extraterrestrial Relays 5. The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth 6. The Challenge of the Spaceship 7. First Men in the Moon 8. The ...
... Rockets and Radar XV xvii Introduction 1. Dunsany , Lord of Fantasy 2. Rockets 3. The Coming Age of Rocket Power 4. Extraterrestrial Relays 5. The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth 6. The Challenge of the Spaceship 7. First Men in the Moon 8. The ...
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... Cape Kennedy Introduction 1. Failures of Nerve and Imagination 2. We'll Never Conquer Space 3. Rocket to the Renaissance 4. The Obsolescence of Man 195 196 204 210 217 5. Space and the Spirit of Man 6. The Uses Contents.
... Cape Kennedy Introduction 1. Failures of Nerve and Imagination 2. We'll Never Conquer Space 3. Rocket to the Renaissance 4. The Obsolescence of Man 195 196 204 210 217 5. Space and the Spirit of Man 6. The Uses Contents.
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... Rocket Publishing Company and the Arthur C. Clarke Foun- dation of Great Britain excavated early pieces from long - vanished publications . ( David N. Samuelson's Authur C. Clarke : A Primary and Sec- ondary Bibliography [ Boston ...
... Rocket Publishing Company and the Arthur C. Clarke Foun- dation of Great Britain excavated early pieces from long - vanished publications . ( David N. Samuelson's Authur C. Clarke : A Primary and Sec- ondary Bibliography [ Boston ...
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... confirmed , or refuted , my asser- tions . Often it has been more interesting to see where ( and why ) I went wrong , than where I happened to be right . Sir Arthur C. Clarke , CBE Part One THE 1930S AND 1940s : ROCKETS AND RADAR II.
... confirmed , or refuted , my asser- tions . Often it has been more interesting to see where ( and why ) I went wrong , than where I happened to be right . Sir Arthur C. Clarke , CBE Part One THE 1930S AND 1940s : ROCKETS AND RADAR II.
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... ROCKETS AND RADAR A teenaged Clarke working on one of his early experiments in communications , surrounded by his beloved collection of science fiction books and magazines . COURTESY OF SCIENCE AND SOCIETY PICTURE LIBRARY , LONDON ...
... ROCKETS AND RADAR A teenaged Clarke working on one of his early experiments in communications , surrounded by his beloved collection of science fiction books and magazines . COURTESY OF SCIENCE AND SOCIETY PICTURE LIBRARY , LONDON ...
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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