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1984: Spring - A Choice of Futures

Arthur C. Clarke

First published 1984
Publisher Granada
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Pages 268
Price £8.95
ISBN 0246123060

  • ''Published by Granada Publishing 1984''
  • Month from Locus1
  • Structured in four parts: ''I. The Weapons of Peace'' (pp. 15-96); ''II. Apollo and After'' (pp. 99-158): ''III. The Literary Scene'' (pp. 161-236); and ''IV. From the Coast of Coral'' (pp. 239-268). The first 15 pages are unnumbered.
  • Almost all pieces have prefatory notes about their origins (address, lecture, foreword, letter, etc.) as well as about the time and place of their first publication. Further information as regards to the latter is to be found in the ''Acknowledgements''.

Page Title Author(s) Type
15 Beyond the Global Village Arthur C. Clarke Essay
25 New Communications and the Developing World Arthur C. Clarke Essay
40 In the Hall of the Knights Arthur C. Clarke Essay
44 To Russia, with Love... Arthur C. Clarke Essay
55 War and Peace in the Space Age Arthur C. Clarke Essay
73 Electronics and Education Arthur C. Clarke Essay
84 A Flash of Golden Fire Arthur C. Clarke Essay
99 The Eve of Apollo Arthur C. Clarke Essay
106 Apollo Plus Ten Arthur C. Clarke Essay
110 Space Flight - Imagination and Reality Arthur C. Clarke Essay
127 The Discovery of the Solar System Arthur C. Clarke Essay
137 Viking on the Plain of Gold Arthur C. Clarke Essay
144 Space Facts and Space Fallacies Arthur C. Clarke Essay
156 Predictions Arthur C. Clarke Essay
161 Of Sand and Stars Arthur C. Clarke Essay
168 Last and First Books Arthur C. Clarke Essay
171 The Poetry of Space Arthur C. Clarke Essay
189 Shaw and the Sound Barrier Arthur C. Clarke Essay
195 Richard Jefferies Arthur C. Clarke Essay
199 Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf? Arthur C. Clarke Essay
208 With Brendan Behan Arthur C. Clarke Essay
212 The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Arthur C. Clarke Essay
216 My Four Feet on the Ground Arthur C. Clarke Essay
219 The Web Between the Worlds Arthur C. Clarke Essay
222 Mysterious World Arthur C. Clarke Essay
229 Writing to Sell Arthur C. Clarke Essay
239 Beneath the Indian Ocean Arthur C. Clarke Essay
246 The Last Wildernes Arthur C. Clarke Essay
248 The People of the Sea Arthur C. Clarke Essay
254 Tourism: The Challenge of Change Arthur C. Clarke Essay
263 The Menace of Creationism Arthur C. Clarke Essay
[10] Acknowledgements (1984: Spring / A Choice of Futures) uncredited Essay
[7] Preface (1984: Spring - A Choice of Futures) Arthur C. Clarke Essay
[9] Author's Note (1984: Spring - A Choice of Futures) Arthur C. Clarke Essay