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Project Solar Sail
| Author: | Arthur C. Clarke David Brin |
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Roc, 1990 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Based on Clarke's concept of solar sailing, this anthology of tales and essays features the work of such authors as Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Poul Anderson...
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: The Winds of Space - essay by Arthur C. Clarke
- Introduction: Sailing the Void - essay by Isaac Asimov
- The Wind from the Sun - (1964) - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
- To Sail Beyond the Sun (A Luminous Collage) - poem by Ray Bradbury and Jonathan V. Post
- The Canvas of the Night - essay by Eric Drexler
- Ice Pilot - short story by David Brin
- A Solar Privateer - (1981) - poem by Jonathan Eberhart
- Sunjammer - (1964) - novelette by Poul Anderson
- A Rebel Technology Comes Alive - essay by Chauncey Uphoff and Jonathan V. Post
- Argosies of Magic Sails (excerpts from "Locksley Hall") - (1842) - poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Ion Propulsion: The Solar Sail's Competition for Access to the Solar System - essay by Bryan Palaszewski
- The Grand Tour - (1987) - short story by Charles Sheffield
- Lightsail - poem by Scott E. Green
- Rescue at L-5 - short story by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason
- Lightsails to the Stars - essay by Robert L. Forward and Joel Davis
- The Fourth Profession - (1971) - novelette by Larry Niven
- Goodnight, Children - short story by Joe Clifford Faust
- Solar Sails in an Interplanetary Economy - essay by Robert L. Staehle and Louis Friedman
- Afterword - essay by Arthur C. Clarke
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