Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened
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Overview:
- Title: Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened
- Author: Arthur C. Clarke
- Year: 1999
- ISBN-10: 000224697X
- Publisher: Voyager
- Price: £19.99
- Pages: xviii+558
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Non-fiction
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- Notes:
- "Published by Voyager 1999".
- 1st printing per number line [1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2].
- Edited by Ian T. Macauley with short introductory notes to each essay.
- A panel appears on the page following the copyright page (not the title page) that shows "Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998".
- Selection, Acknowledgments, Preface and introductory/concluding remarks to many essays by Arthur Clarke.
- A 16-page insert with black-and-white photographs between pp. 270 and 271.
- Apart from introductions and the like, all pieces other pieces from 1999 were not written in this year but are first published in this volume.
- The Sources section lists the first appearance for each essay, in magazine or book form.