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Useful Links: Titles to Look Out For: Clark for some years lived in Ceylon doing underwater exploration along that coast and along the Great Barrier Reef. Together with two other commentators, he covered the lunar flights of Apollo 11, 12 and 15 for American CBS television. |
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1973, Pan, pbk Sorry, sold out, but click image above to access a prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio
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Contents: This book originally appeared in 1962, and was based upon essays written during the period 1959-1961. Arthur C. Clarke recommends keeping up with articles and books about the future through the World Future Society, who publish a bi-montly magazine called 'The Futurist' In this book, Arthur C. Clarke launches an inquiry into the limits of the possible such as problems on Jupiter, Mercury, Venus-conquering time-transport in the future-overcoming gravity-communications across space; and the creation of benevolent electronic brains. The range of this book is immense:from the re-making of the human mind to the vast reaches of the universe. Newly revised, even the remarkable events of the 1960s-1970s when this copy was published have affected few of the exciting speculations that Clarke makes in this book. He was, and remains, a scientist whose expert and wide knowledge is matched only by his brilliant imagination. Chapters: |
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1970, Pan Books, pbk In stock, click to buy, in good condition, for £5.00, not including post and packing Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: Blotting out the light from the starts they had linked so effortlessly, the silent ships hang suspended over the great cities of Earth...and a long and bloody chapter of history comes to an end. |
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1991, Orbit, pbk In stock, click image above to buy a good condition copy on Amazon UK for £5.00, not including post and packing Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: RAMA - a metallic cylinder approaching the sun at a tremendous velocity; RAMA - first produce of an alien civilization to be encountered by man; RAMA - a world of technological marvels and artificial ecology. What is its purpose in this year 2131? Who is inside it? And why? |
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1975, Pan Books, pbk In stock, good condition, click image above to buy for £3.50 on Amazon UK (not including post and packing) Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: Colonists from the entire solar system converge on the mother planet for the 2276 celebrations. Duncan Makenzie, scientist-administrator from the underground colony of Titan, one of the outer moons of Saturn, has a delicate mission to perform - for his planet, his family and himself... |
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1996, Barnes and Noble, hbk In stock, click image above to buy for £8.00 (good condition copy), or £16.00 (vg condition Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio
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Contents: About this book: The Sentinel is a brilliant collection of Clarke's best short fiction. The haunting title piece of this exciting collection inspired "2001: A Space Odyssey", one of the most famous science fiction movies of all time. In the provocative "Breaking Strain", Grant and McNeil are plodding along the trade route from Earth to Venus when a meteor pierces their freighter and depletes their oxygen reserve. As the frightening reality of emergency sinks in, neither wants to be the first to speak the shattering truth - that if one man dies now, the other might just have enough oxygen to survive the trip... |
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2000, HarperCollins Sorry, out of stock, but click image above to access a prebuilt search for this item on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Story: 'Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?' The New Past When WormCams are made to work across time as well as space, humanity encounters itself in the light of other days. We witness the life of Jesus, go to the premiere of Hamlet, solve the enigmas that have baffled generations. Blood spilled centuries ago flows vividly once more. And privacy, of course, is a thing of the past. No personal treachery or shame can be concealed. Mutual Assured Surveillance Fuming inwardly about decadent technology and excess wealth, journalist Kate Manzoni goes to work for Hiram, who has his own reasons for hiring her. Hiram wants her close so that he can the more easily destroy her-to bring to an end her affair with Bobby Patterson, his son. Hiram seeks to keep his deadly schemes secret-but even he, its creator, cannot anticipate the power of the all-seeing Wormcam. |
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