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Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312267452
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-01-06 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the definitive work of his brilliant career, Clarke has collected his most prophetic nonfiction essays, lucidly demonstrating that he not only anticipated many of the 20th century's greatest scientific innovations, but he in fact helped to shape the path to come. 16-page photo insert.

Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780002246972
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greetings, Carbon-based Bipeds! written by Arthur Charles Clarke and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1999 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780002003827
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher : Voyager
ISBN 13 : 9780006483694
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greetings, Carbon-based Bipeds! written by Arthur Charles Clarke and published by Voyager. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most visionary and versatile thinker of his age gathers together in a single volume his most significant and prophetic non-fiction writings to present a personal view of the twentieth century. Each essay has a new introduction by Clarke. Witness the awesome workings of Clarke's intellect as he predicts the role of geosynchronous satellites decades before they existed; anticipates the internet decades before it happened; reports from Kennedy Space Centre; scripts the best movies ever made; discusses Star Wars, giant squid, and numerous other fascinating topics. Clarke has been both a technological prophet and a cultural conscience for many decades of his century, celebrating the great scientific power of man - an d simultaneously warning of the perils of a world where power and greed reign unchecked. Clarke can provide a unique coda for the last century of the second millennium.

Author : Arthur C. Clarke
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575121823
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Profiles Of The Future written by Arthur C. Clarke and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inquiry into the limits of the possible. Our problems on Jupiter, Mercury, Venus - conquering Time - transport in the future - overcoming gravity - communications across space - benevolent electronic brains. The range of this enthralling book is immense: from the re-making of the human mind to the vast reaches of the universe. Newly revised, even the remarkable events of the last decade have affected few of the exciting speculations by Arthur C. Clarke - a scientist whose expert and wide knowledge is matched only by his brilliant imagination.

Author : Tom Easton
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 080951205X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off the Main Sequence written by Tom Easton and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Easton has served as the monthly book review columnist for Analog Science Fiction for almost three decades, having contributed during that span many hundreds of columns and over a million words of penetrating criticism on the best literature that science fiction has to offer. His reviews have been celebrated for their wit, humor, readability, knowledge, and incisiveness. His love of literature, particularly fantastic literature, is everywhere evident in his essays. Easton has ever been willing to cover small presses, obscure authors, and unusual publications, being the only major critic in the field to do so on a regular basis. He seems to delight in finding the rare gem among the backwaters of the publishing field. "A reviewer's job," he says, "is not to judge books for the ages, but to tell readers enough about a book to give them some idea of whether they would enjoy it." And this he does admirably, whether he's discussing the works of the great writers in the field, or touching upon the least amongst them. This companion volume to "Periodic Stars" (Borgo/Wildside) collects another 250 of Easton's best reviews from the last fifteen years of "The Reference Library." No one does it better, and no other guide provides such lengthy or discerning commentary on the best SF works of recent times. Complete with Introduction and detailed Index.

Author : Daniel Deudney
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190903341
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Skies written by Daniel Deudney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dark Skies is the first work to assess the full impacts of space expansion, past, present and future. Thinking about space, and the visions fervently promoted by the global space movement, are dominated by geographic misperceptions and utopian illusions. The parts of space where almost all activity has occurred are part of the planet Earth, its astrosphere, and are, in practical terms, smaller than the atmosphere. Contrary to frontier visions, orbital space is already congested and degraded with dangerous space debris. The largest impact of actual space activities is an increased likelihood of catastrophic nuclear war stemming from the use of orbital space and space technology to lob nuclear weapons at intercontinental distances. Building large-scale orbital infrastructures will probably require or produce world government. The ultimate goal of space advocates, the colonization of Mars and asteroids, is promoted to guarantee the survival of humanity if major catastrophes strike Earth. But the spread of humanity into a multi-planet species will likely produce an interstate anarchy highly prone to total war, with Earth having many disadvantages. Altering the orbits of asteroids, a readily achievable technology vital for space colonization, also makes possible 'planetoid bombs' with destructive potentials millions of times great than all nuclear weapons. The biological diversification of humanity into multiple species, anticipated by space advocates, will further stoke interworld wars. Astrocide - the extinction of humanity resulting from significant space expansion - must join the lengthening list of potential threats to human survival. Large-scale space expansion should be relinquished in favour of an Earth-oriented space program of arms control and planetary security. Dark Skies is the first work to assess the full impacts of space expansion, past, present and future. Thinking about space, and the visions fervently promoted by the global space movement, are dominated by geographic misperceptions and utopian illusions. The parts of space where almost all activity has occurred are part of the planet Earth, its astrosphere, and are, in practical terms, smaller than the atmosphere. Contrary to frontier visions, orbital space is already congested and degraded with dangerous space debris. The largest impact of actual space activities is an increased likelihood of catastrophic nuclear war stemming from the use of orbital space and space technology to lob nuclear weapons at intercontinental distances. Building large-scale orbital infrastructures will probably require or produce world government. The ultimate goal of space advocates, the colonization of Mars and asteroids, is promoted to guarantee the survival of humanity if major catastrophes strike Earth. But the spread of humanity into a multi-planet species will likely produce an interstate anarchy highly prone to total war, with Earth having many disadvantages. Altering the orbits of asteroids, a readily achievable technology vital for space colonization, also makes possible 'planetoid bombs' with destructive potentials millions of times great than all nuclear weapons. The biological diversification of humanity into multiple species, anticipated by space advocates, will further stoke interworld wars. Astrocide - the extinction of humanity resulting from significant space expansion - must join the lengthening list of potential threats to human survival. Large-scale space expansion should be relinquished in favour of an Earth-oriented space program of arms control and planetary security"--

Author : David Wolfe
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439864101
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puzzlers' Tribute written by David Wolfe and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-12-05 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second collection of interesting mathematical puzzles continues the tribute to Martin Gardner, who has provided us with original puzzles and puzzling stories ever since he created and produced the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American. The international community of puzzle enthusiasts has gathered once again to celebrate Martin Ga

Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1984, Spring written by Arthur Charles Clarke and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the author's articles, essays, and speeches expounding on war and peace, the frontiers of space, the need for global communications, and other problems of the world.

Author : Warren Allen Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 125787487X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Heart Of Showbiz - Vol. 2 written by Warren Allen Smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of letters and other memorabilia from Arthur C. Clarke, Paul Kurtz and others that Warren Allen Smith has collected over the years.