Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998

Overview:

  • Title: Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998
  • Author: Arthur C. Clarke
  • Year: 1999
  • ISBN-10: 0312198930
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Price: $35.00
  • Pages: xvii+558
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays 1934-1998
  • Notes:
    • Stated: "First Edition: August 1999"
    • First printing by number line (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).
    • "Jacket design by Henry Sene Yee"
    • "Jacket photograph courtesy of Archive Photos / Popperfoto"
    • There is a 16-page insert of B&W photographs between pages 238 and 239.
    • Starting on page 541 there are the sources, the index and note about author and editor.
      • "Rough Cut" technique used. Gives the book a unfinished, vintage or unique look, but this applies to all copies of this edition - at least all of the first printing.
    • Locus1 mistakenly has the page count as 358.