Brief description of the Martian landscape inspired by the latest (at the time) Mariner missions.
According to Clarke in The View from Serendip, this short essay was written for Playboy in 1973. Locus gives the first publication as ''Playboy Dec '74''
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1977 |
|
The View from Serendip | Random House | Nonfiction | 147 |
| 1978 |
|
The View from Serendip | Victor Gollancz | Nonfiction | 147 |
| April 1978 |
|
The View from Serendip | Random House / SFBC | Nonfiction | 133 |
| September 1978 |
|
The View from Serendip | Del Rey / Ballantine | Nonfiction | 134 |
| 1979 |
|
The View from Serendip | Pan Books | Nonfiction | 133 |
| 1983 | The View from Serendip | Pan Books | Nonfiction | 133 | |
| 1999 |
|
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened | Voyager | Nonfiction | 310 |
| August 1999 |
|
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998 | St. Martin's Press | Nonfiction | 310 |