Title: The Challenge of the Spaceship
Title Record # 1016143
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Date: 1946-12-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English
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Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Date: 1946-12-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English
Note: According to the notes in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! (1999), the essay, which started as an address, was first published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for December 1946.
In 1959 Clarke revised and updated the piece for inclusion in the eponymous collection of essays. The version in Greetings... omits few sentences (including one quote from another author), but otherwise, except for trifles like punctuation, spelling and merged paragraphs, the piece is identical with the one in The Challenge of the Spaceship (1959).
Also, according to Locus1, a revised version of the talk appeared also in British Thought (1947, ed. Ivor Brown).
Synopsis: One of Clarke's classic essays with speculations on space exploration and its profound effect on mankind. Deals with philosophical issues, not with technical details how to build a spaceship.
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Challenge of the Spaceship: Previews of Tomorrow's World | 1959-00-00 | Arthur C. Clarke | Harper & Brothers | $3.50?$: US dollar |
212 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
non-fic | |||
The Challenge of the Spaceship: Previews of Tomorrow's World | 1959-00-00 | Arthur C. Clarke | Frederick Muller Ltd | 15/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
vi+ 212 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
non-fic | |||
Über den Himmel hinaus: Unser Leben im Zeichen der Raumfahrt | 1960-00-00 | Arthur C. Clarke | Econ | DM 14.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
251 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
non-fic | Werner Rebhuhn | ||
The Challenge of the Spaceship | 1961-00-00 | Arthur C. Clarke | Ballantine Books | F528 | $0.35?$: US dollar |
189 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
non-fic | Richard Powers | |
The Challenge of the Spaceship | 1980-06-00 | Arthur C. Clarke | Pocket Books | 0-671-82139-3 | $2.50?$: US dollar |
222 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
non-fic | ||
By Space Possessed: Essays on the Exploration of Space | 1993-07-00 | Arthur C. Clarke | Gollancz | 0-575-05596-0 | £16.99?£: UK pound |
223 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
non-fic | Peter Mennim | |
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened | 1999-00-00 | Arthur C. Clarke | Voyager | 0-00-224697-X | £19.99?£: UK pound |
xviii+ 558 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
non-fic | ||
Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998 | 1999-08-00 | Arthur C. Clarke | St. Martin's Press | 0-312-19893-0 | $35.00?$: US dollar |
xvii+ 558 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
non-fic |