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- The Craft of Science Fiction ed. Reginald Bretnor (Harper & Row 0-06-010461-9, 1976, 313pp, hc)
- Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future ed. Reginald Bretnor (Advent, 1979, $10.00, xvi+327pp, hc, cover by Mike Hinge); Reprint (Coward-McCann 1953) critical book. Limited to 1500 copies.
- The SFWA Handbook ed. Mildred Downey Broxon (SFWA, 1976 [Jun ’96], no price, 147pp, tp); Associational book. [PSP]
- Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A vision of the 20th century as it happened Arthur C. Clarke (Voyager 0-00-648369-0, Jul 2000, £7.99, xviii+555pp, tp); Reprint (St. Martin’s 1999) collection of 110 non-fiction works published between 1934 and 1938. Edited by Ian T. Macauley.
- xv · Acknowledgements · Arthur C. Clarke · ms
- xvii · Preface · Arthur C. Clarke · pr
- 1 · Part One. The 1930s and 1940s: Rockets and Radar
- 3 · Introduction [extracts from first few chapters of Astounding Days] · Arthur C. Clarke · si London: Gollancz, 1989
- 7 · Dunsany, Lord of Fantasy · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Futurian War Digest Dec ’44
- 13 · Rockets · Arthur C. Clarke · br Futurian War Digest Dec ’44 [Willy Ley]
- 17 · The Coming Age of Rocket Power · Arthur C. Clarke · br Spacewards #6 ’45 [G. Edward Pendray]
- 19 · Extraterrestrial Relays · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Wireless World Oct ’45
- 26 · The Moon and Mr. Farnsworth · Arthur C. Clarke · ar; Probably written in 1945-1946.
- 30 · The Challenge of the Spaceship · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Dec ’46
- 44 · First Men in the Moon · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Star Jan 30 ’47
- 48 · The Problem of Dr. Campbell · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Sep ’48
- 54 · The Lackeys of Wall Street · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Fantasy Review Feb/Mar ’49
- 58 · Voyages to the Moon · Arthur C. Clarke · br Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Sep ’49 [Marjorie Hope Nicholson]
- 63 · You’re on the Glide Path, I Think · Arthur C. Clarke · ar The Aeroplane Sep 23 ’49
- 72 · Morphological Astronomy · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Journal of the British Astronomical Society Feb ’49
- 75 · The Conquest of Space · Arthur C. Clarke · br Journal of the British Astronomical Society Dec ’49 [Chesley Bonestell; Willy Ley]
- 79 · Part Two. The 1950s: Beneath the Seas of Ceylon
- 81 · Introduction · Arthur C. Clarke · si
- 82 · The Effect of Interplanetary Flight · Walter H. Gillings · ar Journal of the British Interplanetary Society May ’50; Report on Clarke speech at British Interplanetary Society, 4 Feb 1950.
- 84 · Space Travel in Fact and Fiction · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Sep ’51; An address to the British Interplanetary Society, 1 April 1950.
- 99 · Review: Destination Moon · Arthur C. Clarke · mr Journal of the British Astronomical Society Oct ’50
- 102 · Interplanetary Flight · Arthur C. Clarke · ex London: Temple Press, 1950
- 105 · The Exploration of Space · Arthur C. Clarke · ex London: Temple Press, 1951
- 108 · Review: When Worlds Collide · Arthur C. Clarke · mr Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Jan ’52; Adds 1998 footnote.
- 111 · Review: Man on the Moon · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Jun ’53
- 114 · Flying Saucers · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Journal of the British Interplanetary Society May ’53
- 119 · Review: Flying Saucers Have Landed · Arthur C. Clarke · br Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Mar ’54 [Desmond Leslie; George Adamski]
- 123 · Undersea Holiday [“The Submarine Playground”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar The Challenge of the Sea, Arthur C. Clarke, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961; an earlier version appeared in Holiday for August 1954.
- 132 · The Exploration of the Moon · Arthur C. Clarke · ex London: Frederick Muller, 1954
- 136 · Eclipse · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Journal of the British Astronomical Society Oct ’54
- 139 · Astronautical Fallacies · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Journal of the British Interplanetary Society Nov ’54
- 145 · The Star of Bethlehem · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Holiday Dec ’54
- 153 · Capricorn to Cancer [from The Reefs of Taprobane] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1957
- 157 · Keeping House in Colombo [from The Reefs of Taprobane] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1957
- 161 · The Reefcombers’ Derby [from The Reefs of Taprobane] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1957
- 165 · Rest Houses, Catamarans, and Sharks [from The Reefs of Taprobane] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1957
- 168 · The First Wreck [from The Reefs of Taprobane] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1957
- 173 · A Clear Run to the South Pole [from The Treasure of the Great Reef] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1962
- 180 · The Isle of Taprobane [from The Treasure of the Great Reef] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1962
- 183 · The Great Reef [from The Treasure of the Great Reef] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1962
- 189 · Winding Up [from The Treasure of the Great Reef] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1962
- 193 · Part Three. The 1960s: Kubrick and Cape Kennedy
- 195 · Introduction · Arthur C. Clarke · si
- 196 · Failures of Nerve and Imagination · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Profiles of the Future, Harper Row, 1962
- 204 · We’ll Never Conquer Space · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Science Digest Jun ’60
- 210 · Rocket to the Renaissance · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Playboy Jul ’60
- 217 · The Obsolescence of Man [“Machina ex Deus”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Playboy Jul ’61
- 226 · Space and the Spirit of Man [“Space Flight and the Spirit of Man”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Astronautics Oct ’61
- 231 · The Uses of the Moon · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Harper’s
- 240 · The Playing Fields of Space · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Holiday
- 246 · Kalinga Prize Speech · Arthur C. Clarke · sp Voices from the Sky, Arthur C. Clarke, New York: Harper, 1965; Speech given in Delhi, 1992. Originally appeared in an abridged form in Fantasy & Science Fiction for October 1963.
- 251 · More Than Five Senses · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Boys’ Life Apr ’68
- 259 · Son of Dr. Strangelove · Arthur C. Clarke · ar The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke, New York: New American Library, 1972
- 264 · Possible, That’s All! · Arthur C. Clarke · ar F&SF Oct ’68
- 268 · The Mind of the Machine · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Report on Probability Three, Arthur C. Clarke, Gollancz, 1972
- 277 · God and Einstein · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Report on Probability Three, Arthur C. Clarke, Gollancz, 1972
- 279 · Part Four. The 1970s: Tomorrow’s Worlds
- 281 · Introduction · Arthur C. Clarke · si
- 283 · Satellites and Saris [“Schoolmaster Satellite”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar London Daily Telegraph Dec 17 ’71; Speech delivered to State Department, 20 August 1971.
- 291 · Mars and the Mind of Man · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Harper & Row, 1973
- 296 · The Sea of Sinbad · Arthur C. Clarke · ar The Observer Magazine, 1972
- 305 · Willy and Chesley · Arthur C. Clarke · ar The View from Serendip, London: Gollancz, 1978
- 310 · The Snows of Olympus · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Playboy Dec ’74
- 313 · Writing to Sell [as introduction to Writing to Sell by Scott Meredith] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar New York: Harper & Row, 1977
- 319 · Part Five. The 1980s: Stay of Execution
- 321 · Introduction · Arthur C. Clarke · si
- 323 · The Steam-Powered Word Processor · Arthur C. Clarke · fa Analog Sep ’86
- 329 · Afterword: “Maelstrom II” [from Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime, Volume 2: Maelstrom by Paul Preuss] · Arthur C. Clarke · aw New York: Avon, 1988
- 333 · Mother Nature Got There First · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Analog Aug ’90
- 337 · Message to Comsat, February 18, 1988 · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *
- 339 · Graduation Address: International Space University · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *; Satellite address broadcast to graduates, August 20, 1988.
- 342 · Back to 2001 [as foreword to 2001: A Space Odyssey] · Arthur C. Clarke · fw Roc, 1993
- 348 · Coauthors and Other Nuisances [as afterword to Rama II] · Arthur C. Clarke · aw New York: Bantam, 1989
- 353 · The Power of Compression [“Words That Inspire”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar The Reader’s Digest UK Dec ’98
- 355 · Life in the Fax Line · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *
- 358 · Credo · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Living Philosophies, ed. Clifton Fadiman, Doubleday, 1991
- 364 · The Colors of Infinity: Exploring the Fractal Universe [from The Ghost from the Grand Banks] · Arthur C. Clarke · sp New York: Bantam, 1990; Lecture delivered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 12, 1989.
- 368 · Close Encounter with Cosmonauts · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Omni Sep ’80
- 371 · The Century Syndrome [from The Ghost from the Grand Banks] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Bantam, 1990
- 374 · Who’s Afraid of Leonard Woolf? · Arthur C. Clarke · ar 1984: Spring, Arthur C. Clarke, Ballantine Del Rey, 1984
- 380 · My Four Feet on the Ground [as introduction to My Four Feet on the Ground by Nora Clarke, Rocket Publishin] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar, 1978
- 383 · Part Six. The 1990s: Countdown to 2000
- 385 · Introduction · Arthur C. Clarke · si
- 387 · Marconi Symposium · Arthur C. Clarke · sp *; Address at Smithsonian Institution, April 24, 1990.
- 389 · Introduction to Charles Pellegrino’s Unearthing Atlantis · Arthur C. Clarke · in, 1991
- 392 · Tribute to Robert A. Heinlein (1907 - 1988) · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Astounding Days, Arthur C. Clarke, Gollancz, 1989
- 396 · Satyajit and Stanley · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *
- 398 · Aspects of Science Fiction · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *; ‘was previously unpublished in English’.
- 406 · Save the Giant Squid! [“Squid!”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Omni Jan ’92
- 410 · A Choice of Futures · Arthur C. Clarke · ar The Illustrated London News May ’92
- 416 · Gene Roddenberry · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Omni Feb ’92
- 418 · Introduction to Jack Williamson’s Beachhead · Arthur C. Clarke · in New York: Tor, 1992
- 421 · Scenario for a Civilized Planet [“What Is to Be Done?”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Bulletin of Atomic Scientists May ’92
- 428 · NASA Sutra: Eros in Orbit · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Playboy, 1992
- 434 · Minehead Made Me · Arthur C. Clarke · ar London Sunday Express, 1992
- 436 · Good-bye, Isaac · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Locus May ’92
- 438 · Encyclical [from The Hammer of God] · Arthur C. Clarke · ex New York: Bantam, 1993
- 440 · Letter from Sri Lanka · Arthur C. Clarke · sp *; Live satellite broadcast, Colombo to Washington, October 8, 1992.
- 448 · Message to Mars · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *
- 450 · Preface: The War of the Worlds · Arthur C. Clarke · pr Tuttle: Rutland VT & Tokyo, 1993
- 456 · Preface: The First Men in the Moon · Arthur C. Clarke · pr; Everyman Paperback Classic edition, date unknown.
- 460 · The Joy of Maths · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *
- 465 · Tribute to Robert Bloch · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master, ed. Richard Matheson & Ricia Mainhardt, Tor, 1995
- 468 · Spaceguard · Arthur C. Clarke · sp *; University of Moratuwa Convocation Address, 1994.
- 472 · Foreword: Encyclopedia of Frauds by James Randi · Arthur C. Clarke · fw New York: St. Martin’s, 1995; as foreword to An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and the; Supernatural
- 475 · Bucky · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *
- 477 · Homage to Frank Paul · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *
- 479 · Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Life Sep ’92
- 482 · The Birth of HAL · Arthur C. Clarke · in, 1997; Introduction to HAL’s Legacy: 2001’s Computers as Dreams and Reality; (ed. David G. Stork, MIT Press, 1997).
- 485 · The Coming Cyberclysm · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Asia Week Oct 4 ’95
- 488 · Tribute to David Lasser · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Locus Jul ’96
- 490 · Toilets of the Gods · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *
- 492 · When Will the Real Space Age Begin? · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Ad Astra May/Jun ’96
- 496 · Review: Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson [“Mind Stretch”] · Arthur C. Clarke · br Times Higher Education Supplement Mar 14 ’97 [Freeman J. Dyson]
- 501 · Eyes on the Universe [“Looking Up, Down the Barrel”] · Arthur C. Clarke · br Times Higher Education Supplement Jun 27 ’97 [Patrick Moore]; book review of The Story of the telescope by Patrick Moore
- 504 · Walter Alvarez and Gerrit L. Verschuur · Arthur C. Clarke · br Times Higher Education Supplement, 1997; Review of T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Alvarez), and; Impact! The Threat of Comets and Asteroids (Verschuur).
- 509 · The Gay Warlords · Arthur C. Clarke · ar *
- 512 · More Last Words on UFOs [“Why ET Will Never Call Home”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar The Times Aug 5 ’97
- 515 · Carl Sagan [“Space Sage”] · Arthur C. Clarke · br Times Higher Education Supplement Dec 12 ’97; Review of Carl Sagan’s Universe (eds. Yervant Terzian and Elizabeth Bilson, 1997).
- 519 · For Cherene, Tamara, and Melinda · Arthur C. Clarke · ar LEADERS Jul/Sep ’92
- 523 · Part Seven. Postscript: 2000 and Beyond
- 525 · Science and Society [“Presidents, Experts, and Asteroids”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Science Jun 5 ’98
- 529 · Is There Life After Television? · Arthur C. Clarke · sp *; Speech given at the Fiftieth Annual Emmy Awards, Sept 1997.
- 534 · The Twenty-First Century: A (Very) Brief History [“2001 and Beyond”] · Arthur C. Clarke · ar Sunday Telegraph Feb 21 ’99
- 541 · Sources · Misc. Material · bi
- 547 · Index · Misc. Material · ix
- The Fiction of James Tiptree, Jr. Gardner Dozois (Algol Press 0-916186-04-0, 1977 [May ’96], $2.50, 36pp, ph, cover by Judith Weiss); Pamphlet combining Dozois’s essay from the G.K. Hall edition of 10,000 Light Years From Home with a bibliography by Jeff Smith. [James Tiptree, Jr.]
- Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction Writing ed. Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (Advent 0-911682-14-7, Sep ’74 [Nov ’81], $2.25, 104pp, tp, cover by John Stopa); Reissue (Fantasy Press 1947) critical book.
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