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Extraterrestrial Relays

Arthur C. Clarke

First published September 1965
Type Essay

This rather famous paper appears in at least two somewhat different versions.
The one in Voices from the Sky (1965) reprints the original from Wireless World for October 1945. It contains four figures and two equations in the text as well as a list of seven references in the the end. A facsimile is reprinted in Ascent to Orbit (1984)
The version in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! (1999) is much simplified, omitting all technical details. Apart from that, the text itself is only very slightly revised. Clarke calls this "my final - I hope - version".

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1965 Cover Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age Harper & Row Nonfiction 233
1966 Cover Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age Gollancz Nonfiction 233
October 1967 Cover Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age Pyramid Books Nonfiction 197
1969 Cover Voices from the Sky Mayflower Nonfiction 191
1969 Cover Voices from the Sky Mayflower Nonfiction 191
January 1971 Cover Voices from the Sky: Previews of the Coming Space Age Pyramid Books Nonfiction 197
February 1980 Cover Voices from the Sky Pocket Books Nonfiction 230
1999 Cover Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened Voyager Nonfiction 19
August 1999 Cover Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998 St. Martin's Press Nonfiction 19