Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998

Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Macauley

Macmillan, Jan 6, 2001 - Science - 576 pages

Arthur 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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Written over seven decades, these essays by Clarke, most famous for his sf novels (e.g., 2001: A Space Odyssey), cover a range of science topics--especially space exploration. Arranged chronologically ...

Contents

• IV: 7
• V: 13
• VI: 17
• VII: 19
• VIII: 26
• IX: 30
• X: 44
• XI: 48
• XII: 54
• XIII: 58
• XIV: 63
• XV: 72
• XVI: 75
• XVII: 81
• XVIII: 82
• XIX: 84
• XX: 99
• XXI: 102
• XXII: 105
• XXIII: 108
• XXIV: 111
• XXV: 114
• XXVI: 119
• XXVII: 123
• XXVIII: 132
• XXIX: 136
• XXX: 139
• XXXI: 145
• XXXII: 153
• XXXIII: 157
• XXXIV: 161
• XXXV: 165
• XXXVI: 168
• XXXVII: 173
• XXXVIII: 180
• XXXIX: 183
• XL: 189
• XLI: 195
• XLII: 196
• XLIII: 204
• XLIV: 210
• XLV: 217
• XLVI: 226
• XLVII: 231
• XLVIII: 240
• XLIX: 246
• L: 251
• LI: 259
• LII: 264
• LIII: 268
• LIV: 277
• LV: 281
• LVI: 283
• LVII: 291
• LVIII: 296
• LIX: 305
• LX: 310
• LXI: 313
• LXII: 321
• LXIII: 323
• LXIV: 329
• LXV: 333
• LXVI: 337
• LXVII: 339
• LXVIII: 342
• LXIX: 348
• LXX: 353
• LXXI: 355
• LXXII: 358
• LXXIII: 364
• LXXIV: 368
• LXXV: 371
• LXXVI: 374
• LXXVII: 380
• LXXVIII: 385
• LXXIX: 387
• LXXX: 389
• LXXXI: 392
• LXXXII: 396
• LXXXIII: 398
• LXXXIV: 406
• LXXXV: 410
• LXXXVI: 416
• LXXXVII: 418
• LXXXVIII: 421
• LXXXIX: 428
• XC: 434
• XCI: 436
• XCII: 438
• XCIII: 440
• XCIV: 448
• XCV: 450
• XCVI: 456
• XCVII: 460
• XCVIII: 465
• XCIX: 468
• C: 472
• CI: 475
• CII: 477
• CIII: 479
• CIV: 482
• CV: 485
• CVI: 488
• CVII: 490
• CVIII: 492
• CIX: 496
• CXI: 501
• CXII: 504
• CXIII: 509
• CXIV: 512
• CXV: 515
• CXVI: 519
• CXVII: 525
• CXVIII: 529
• CXIX: 534
• CXX: 541
• CXXI: 547
• CXXII: 557
• CXXIII: 558

About the author

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE was born in England in 1917 and has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956. He is the author of such bestselling books as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhoods End and Rendezvous with Rama.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998
• Authors: Arthur C. Clarke, Ian Macauley
• Editor: Ian Macauley
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2001
• ISBN: 0312267452, 9780312267452
• Length: 576 pages
• Subjects: Science / History