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Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations
Author: | Arthur C. Clarke |
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Berkley Publishing Group, 1985 Corgi Books, 1973 Harper & Row, 1972 |
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Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
In addition to being one of Science Fiction's greatest writers, Sir Arthur C. Clarke was also one of our foremost thinkers and visionaries, producing a number of highly readable and important non-fiction works. Report of Planet Three is a collection of 23 essays on the future of Man and his technology, including essays on space, satellite communications, the internet, alien contact, UFO debunking and relativity.
Contents:
- [ix] - Preface (Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations) - (1971) - essay
- 13 - Report on Planet Three - (1959) - essay
- 21 - The Men on the Moon - (1958) - essay
- 32 - Meteors - (1959) - essay
- 42 - The Star of the Magi - (1954) - essay (variant of The Star of Bethlehem)
- 53 - Vacation in Vacuum - (1953) - essay
- 65 - So You're Going to Mars? - (1953) - essay
- 76 - Next--the Planets! - (1968) - essay
- 89 - The Planets Are Not Enough - (1955) - essay
- 100 - When the Aliens Come - (1968) - essay
- 115 - Possible, That's All! - (1968) - essay
- 122 - God and Einstein - (1972) - essay
- 124 - Across the Sea of Stars - (1959) - essay
- 133 - The Mind of the Machine - (1968) - essay
- 146 - Technology And The Future - (1967) - essay
- 160 - Beyond Babel - (1969) - essay
- 177 - More Than Five Senses - (1972) - essay
- 188 - Things That Can Never Be Done - (1972) - essay
- 199 - The World We Can Not See - (1972) - essay
- 211 - Things in the Sky - (1959) - essay
- 225 - Which Way Is Up? - (1959) - essay
- 236 - Haldane And Space - (1968) - essay
- 244 - Son of Dr. Strangelove - (1972) - essay
- 253 - The Myth of 2001 - (1969) - essay
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