Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!,9780312198930

Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!

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ISBN13: 9780312198930
ISBN10: 0312198930
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-08-01
Publisher(s): St Martins Pr
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Summary

This definitive collection of Clarke's essays from 1934-1998 demonstrates that he not only anticipated many of the 20th century's greatest scientific innovations, but also helped to shape society's path. 16 pages of photos.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xv
Preface xvii
Part I. The 1930s and 1940s: Rockets and Radar
Introduction
3(4)
Dunsany, Lord of Fantasy
7(6)
Rockets
13(4)
The Coming Age of Rocket Power
17(2)
Extraterrestrial Relays
19(7)
The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth
26(4)
The Challenge of the Spaceship
30(14)
First Men in the Moon
44(4)
The Problem of Dr. Campbell
48(6)
The Lackeys of Wall Street
54(4)
Voyages to the Moon
58(5)
You're on the Glide Path, I Think
63(9)
Morphological Astronomy
72(3)
The Conquest of Space
75(7)
Part II. The 1950s: Beneath the Seas of Ceylon
Introduction
81(1)
The Effect of Interplanetary Flight
82(2)
Space Travel in Fact and Fiction
84(15)
Review: Destination Moon
99(3)
Interplanetary Flight
102(3)
The Exploration of Space
105(3)
Review: When Worlds Collide
108(3)
Review: Man on the Moon
111(3)
Flying Saucers
114(5)
Review: Flying Saucers Have Landed
119(4)
Undersea Holiday
123(9)
The Exploration of the Moon
132(4)
Eclipse
136(3)
Astronautical Fallacies
139(6)
The Star of Bethlehem
145(8)
Capricorn to Cancer
153(4)
Keeping House in Colombo
157(4)
The Reefcombers' Derby
161(4)
Rest Houses, Catamarans, and Sharks
165(3)
The First Wreck
168(5)
A Clear Run to the South Pole
173(7)
The Isle of Taprobane
180(3)
The Great Reef
183(6)
Winding Up
189(7)
Part III. The 1960s: Kubrick and Cape Kennedy
Introduction
195(1)
Failures of Nerve and Imagination
196(8)
We'll Never Conquer Space
204(6)
Rocket to the Renaissance
210(7)
The Obsolescence of Man
217(9)
Space and the Spirit of Man
226(5)
The Uses of the Moon
231(9)
The Playing Fields of Space
240(6)
Kalinga Prize Speech
246(5)
More Than Five Senses
251(8)
Son of Dr. Strangelove
259(5)
Possible, That's All!
264(4)
The Mind of the Machine
268(9)
God and Einstein
277(6)
Part IV. The 1970s: Tomorrow's Worlds
Introduction
281(2)
Satellites and Saris
283(8)
Mars and the Mind of Man
291(5)
The Sea of Sinbad
296(9)
Willy and Chesley
305(5)
The Snows of Olympus
310(3)
Writing to Sell
313(10)
Part V. The 1980s: Stay of Execution
Introduction
321(2)
The Steam-Powered Word Processor
323(6)
Afterword: ``Maelstrom II''
329(4)
Mother Nature Got There First
333(4)
Message to Comsat, February 18, 1988
337(2)
Graduation Address: International Space University
339(3)
Back to 2001
342(6)
Coauthors and Other Nuisances
348(5)
The Power of Compression
353(2)
Life in the Fax Lane
355(3)
Credo
358(6)
The Colors of Infinity: Exploring the Fractal Universe
364(4)
Close Encounter with Cosmonauts
368(3)
The Century Syndrome
371(3)
Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf?
374(6)
My Four Feet on the Ground
380(7)
Part VI. The 1990s: Countdown to 2000
Introduction
385(2)
Marconi Symposium
387(2)
Introduction to Charlie Pellegrino's Unearthing Atlantis
389(3)
Tribute to Robert A. Heinlein (1907--1988)
392(4)
Satyajit and Stanley
396(2)
Aspects of Science Fiction
398(8)
Save the Giant Squid!
406(4)
A Choice of Futures
410(6)
Gene Roddenberry
416(2)
Introduction to Jack Williamson's Beachhead
418(3)
Scenario for a Civilized Planet
421(7)
NASA Sutra: Eros in Orbit
428(6)
Minehead Made Me
434(2)
Good-bye, Isaac
436(2)
Encyclical
438(2)
Letter from Sri Lanka
440(8)
Message to Mars
448(2)
Preface: The War of the Worlds
450(6)
Preface: The First Men in the Moon
456(4)
The Joy of Maths
460(5)
Tribute to Robert Bloch
465(3)
Spaceguard
468(4)
Foreword: Encyclopedia of Frauds
472(3)
James Randi
Bucky
475(2)
Homage to Frank Paul
477(2)
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!
479(3)
The Birth of HAL
482(3)
The Coming Cyberclysm
485(3)
Tribute to David Lasser
488(2)
Toilets of the Gods
490(2)
When Will the Real Space Age Begin?
492(4)
Review: Imagined Worlds
496(5)
Freeman Dyson
Eyes on the Universe
501(3)
Walter Alvarez and Gerrit L. Verschuur
504(5)
The Gay Warlords
509(3)
More Last Words on UFOs
512(3)
Carl Sagan
515(4)
For Cherene, Tamara, and Melinda
519(6)
Part VII. Postscript: 2000 and Beyond
Science and Society
525(4)
Is There Life After Television?
529(5)
The Twenty-First Century: A (Very) Brief History
534(7)
Sources 541(6)
Index 547(10)
About the Author 557(1)
About the Editor 558

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