Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

Octavo. 234 pp. Quarter black cloth over green paper boards. Gilt spine titles. Unclipped dust jacket with minor nick to spine head. "F-Q" code to copyright page. Internal pages clean. A text of modern futurology by the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clarke ventures to define the "limits of the possible," famously introducing his Three Laws of Prediction. Here the iconic Third Law stating that advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic was first popularized in its final form. This copy is remarkably well-preserved, featuring the original modernist jacket design and the back-panel photograph of Clarke receiving the Kalinga Prize from UNESCO. K3. .