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Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened

Arthur C. Clarke

First published 1999
Publisher Voyager
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages xviii+558
Price £19.99
ISBN 000224697X

  • "Published by Voyager 1999".
  • 1st printing per number line [1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2].
  • Edited by Ian T. Macauley with short introductory notes to each essay.
  • A panel appears on the page following the copyright page (not the title page) that shows "Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998".
  • Selection, Acknowledgments, Preface and introductory/concluding remarks to many essays by Arthur Clarke.
  • A 16-page insert with black-and-white photographs between pp. 270 and 271.
  • Apart from introductions and the like, all pieces other pieces from 1999 were not written in this year but are first published in this volume.
  • The Sources section lists the first appearance for each essay, in magazine or book form.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Introduction (Part I) Arthur C. Clarke Essay
7 Dunsany, Lord of Fantasy Arthur C. Clarke Essay
13 Rockets Arthur C. Clarke Essay
17 The Coming Age of Rocket Power Arthur C. Clarke Essay
19 Extraterrestrial Relays Arthur C. Clarke Essay
26 The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth Arthur C. Clarke Essay
30 The Challenge of the Spaceship Arthur C. Clarke Essay
44 First Men in the Moon Arthur C. Clarke Essay
48 The Problem of Dr. Campbell Arthur C. Clarke Essay
54 The Lackeys of Wall Street Arthur C. Clarke Essay
58 Voyages to the Moon Arthur C. Clarke Essay
63 You're on the Glide Path, I Think Arthur C. Clarke Essay
72 Morphological Astronomy Arthur C. Clarke Essay
75 The Conquest of Space Arthur C. Clarke Essay
81 Introduction (Part II) Arthur C. Clarke Essay
82 The Effect of Interplanetary Flight Arthur C. Clarke Essay
84 Space Travel in Fact and Fiction Arthur C. Clarke Essay
99 Review: Destination Moon Arthur C. Clarke Essay
102 Interplanetary Flight Arthur C. Clarke Essay
105 The Exploration of Space Arthur C. Clarke Essay
108 Review: When Worlds Collide Arthur C. Clarke Essay
111 Review: Man on the Moon Arthur C. Clarke Essay
114 Flying Saucers Arthur C. Clarke Essay
119 Review: Flying Saucers Have Landed Arthur C. Clarke Essay
123 Undersea Holiday Arthur C. Clarke Essay
132 The Exploration of the Moon Arthur C. Clarke Essay
136 Eclipse Arthur C. Clarke Essay
139 Astronautical Fallacies Arthur C. Clarke Essay
145 The Star of Bethlehem Arthur C. Clarke Essay
153 Capricorn to Cancer Arthur C. Clarke Essay
157 Keeping House in Colombo Arthur C. Clarke Essay
161 The Reefcombers' Derby Arthur C. Clarke Essay
165 Rest Houses, Catamarans, and Sharks Arthur C. Clarke Essay
168 The First Wreck Arthur C. Clarke Essay
173 A Clear Run to the South Pole Arthur C. Clarke Essay
180 The Isle of Taprobane Arthur C. Clarke Essay
183 The Great Reef Arthur C. Clarke Essay
189 Winding Up Arthur C. Clarke Essay
195 Introduction (Part III) Arthur C. Clarke Essay
196 Failures of Nerve and Imagination Arthur C. Clarke Essay
204 We'll Never Conquer Space Arthur C. Clarke Essay
210 Rocket to the Renaissance Arthur C. Clarke Essay
217 The Obsolescence of Man Arthur C. Clarke Essay
226 Space and the Spirit of Man Arthur C. Clarke Essay
231 The Uses of the Moon Arthur C. Clarke Essay
240 The Playing Fields of Space Arthur C. Clarke Essay
246 Kalinga Prize Speech Arthur C. Clarke Essay
251 More Than Five Senses Arthur C. Clarke Essay
259 Son of Dr. Strangelove Arthur C. Clarke Essay
264 Possible, That's All! Arthur C. Clarke Essay
268 The Mind of the Machine Arthur C. Clarke Essay
277 God and Einstein Arthur C. Clarke Essay
281 Introduction (Part IV) Arthur C. Clarke Essay
283 Satellites and Saris Arthur C. Clarke Essay
291 Mars and the Mind of Man Arthur C. Clarke Essay
296 The Sea of Sinbad Arthur C. Clarke Essay
305 Willy and Chesley Arthur C. Clarke Essay
310 The Snows of Olympus Arthur C. Clarke Essay
313 Writing to Sell Arthur C. Clarke Essay
321 Introduction (Part V) Arthur C. Clarke Essay
323 The Steam-Powered Word Processor Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
329 Afterword: "Maelstrom II" Arthur C. Clarke Essay
333 Mother Nature Got There First Arthur C. Clarke Essay
337 Message to Comsat, February 18, 1988 Arthur C. Clarke Essay
339 Graduation Address: International Space University Arthur C. Clarke Essay
342 Back to 2001 Arthur C. Clarke Essay
348 Coauthors and Other Nuisances Arthur C. Clarke Essay
353 The Power of Compression Arthur C. Clarke Essay
355 Live in the Fax Lane Arthur C. Clarke Essay
358 Credo Arthur C. Clarke Essay
364 The Colors of Infinity: Exploring the Fractal Universe Arthur C. Clarke Essay
368 Close Encounter with Cosmonauts Arthur C. Clarke Essay
371 The Century Syndrome Arthur C. Clarke Short Fiction
374 Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf? Arthur C. Clarke Essay
380 My Four Feet on the Ground Arthur C. Clarke Essay
385 Introduction (Part VI) Arthur C. Clarke Essay
387 Marconi Symposium Arthur C. Clarke Essay
389 Introduction to Charlie Pellegrino's Unearthing Atlantis Arthur C. Clarke Essay
392 Tribute to Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) Arthur C. Clarke Essay
396 Satyajit and Stanley Arthur C. Clarke Essay
398 Aspects of Science Fiction Arthur C. Clarke Essay
406 Save the Giant Squid! Arthur C. Clarke Essay
410 A Choice of Futures Arthur C. Clarke Essay
416 Gene Roddenberry Arthur C. Clarke Essay
418 Introduction to Jack Williamson's Beachhead Arthur C. Clarke Essay
421 Scenario for a Civilized Planet Arthur C. Clarke Essay
428 NASA Sutra: Eros in Orbit Arthur C. Clarke Essay
434 Minehead Made Me Arthur C. Clarke Essay
436 Good-bye, Isaac Arthur C. Clarke Essay
438 Encyclical Arthur C. Clarke Short Fiction
440 Letter from Sri Lanka Arthur C. Clarke Essay
448 Message to Mars Arthur C. Clarke Essay
450 Preface: The War of the Worlds Arthur C. Clarke Essay
456 Preface: The First Men in the Moon Arthur C. Clarke Essay
460 The Joy of Maths Arthur C. Clarke Essay
465 Tribute to Robert Bloch Arthur C. Clarke Essay
468 Spaceguard Arthur C. Clarke Essay
472 Foreword: Encyclopedia of Frauds by James Randi Arthur C. Clarke Essay
475 Bucky Arthur C. Clarke Essay
477 Homage to Frank Paul Arthur C. Clarke Essay
479 Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! Arthur C. Clarke Essay
482 The Birth of HAL Arthur C. Clarke Essay
485 The Coming of Cyberclysm Arthur C. Clarke Essay
488 Tribute to David Lasser Arthur C. Clarke Essay
490 Toilets of the Gods Arthur C. Clarke Essay
492 When Will the Real Space Age Begin? Arthur C. Clarke Essay
496 Review: Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson Arthur C. Clarke Essay
501 Eyes on the Universe Arthur C. Clarke Essay
504 Walter Alvarez and Gerrit L. Verschuur Arthur C. Clarke Essay
509 The Gay Warlords Arthur C. Clarke Essay
512 More Last Words on UFOs Arthur C. Clarke Essay
515 Carl Sagan Arthur C. Clarke Essay
519 For Cherene, Tamara, and Melinda Arthur C. Clarke Essay
525 Science and Society Arthur C. Clarke Essay
529 Is There Life After Television? Arthur C. Clarke Essay
534 The Twenty-First Century: A (Very) Brief History Arthur C. Clarke Essay
541 Sources (Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998) uncredited Essay
547 Index (Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998) uncredited Essay
557 About the Author (Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!) uncredited Essay
558 About the Editor (Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened) uncredited Essay
xv Acknowledgements (Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!) Arthur C. Clarke Essay
xvii Preface (Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!) Arthur C. Clarke Essay

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