Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: A Vision of the 20th Century As It Happened

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.