Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke (Second Revised Edition)

Arthur C. Clarke

ISBN 10: 0575032103 / ISBN 13: 9780575032101

Published by Gollancz, London, 1982

About this Item

Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke (Second Revised Edition) A firm square bright copy. Minor ding to fore-edge. "Archive Copy" stamped to dedication page. A bright dust jacket with wrinkle to cover edge at spine corner. Not price-clipped. Second revised edition publshed 1982, stated. Black boards, gilt lettering to spine. 251pp + [3] Chart of the Future. From the archives of the publisher, Victor Gollancz.

Seller Inventory # HCX12574-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke (Second Revised Edition)
• Publisher: Gollancz, London
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575032103
• ISBN 13: 9780575032101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: BOOK
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

This book originally appeared in 1962, and was based on essays written during the period 1959 - 1961. Since it was concerned with ultimate possibilities, and not with achievements to be expected in the near future, even the remarkable events of the last decade have dated it very little. But Arthur Clarke has gone over the book making corrections and comments where necessary in order to bring it right up-to-date. The author, amongst many fascinating excursions into what the future may hold, discusses the fourth dimension and the obsolescence of the law of gravity, the exploration of the entire solar system and the colonization of some of it; seas will be mined for energy and minerals, and asteroids will be pulled to Earth to supply needed materials; men, already bigger than they need be, may be bred smaller to be more efficient on less food.

About the Author

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King's college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers' Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, 'The Sentinel'. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.