THE WIND FROM THE SUN

by Clarke, Arthur C

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NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972 Hardcover with dust jacket. viii, (ii), 178, (2) pp. Bound in publisher's full blue cloth, gilt (yellow) lettering on spine. Fore-edge deckle. This is a new, unopened copy. Aside from a former owner's initials written on the fep, it is in perfect, pristine condition. The dust jacket is very lightly chipped. This volume contains all the stories that Clarke wrote in the decade of the 1960's, which was one of the most dramatic periods in the entire history of science and technology. Those years embraced, among many other advancements, the development of the laser, the discovery of the genetic code, and the first robot probes of Mars and Venus. These events, either in anticipation or after achievement, are reflected in these stories. For that reason, he has placed them in chronological order. The stories include: Food of the Gods; Maelstrom II; The Shining Ones; The Secret; Last Command; Dial F for Frankenstein; Reunion; Playback; The Light of Darkness; The Longest Science Fiction Story Ever Told; Herbert George Morley Roberts Wells, Esq; Love That Universe; Crusade; The Cruel Sky; Neutron Tide; Transit of Earth; A Meeting with Medusa; and The Wind from the Sun. A Meeting with Medusa won the Nebula Award for best novella in 1972.Arthur C. Clarke is one of the most celebrated and popular science fiction writers of our time. Clarke is considered one of the Big Three of science fiction, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. He is the author of more than sixty books with more than 50 million copies in print. He has won virtually all of the field's highest honors. He was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1986. In 1962 Clarke was awarded the Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science by an international jury appointed by UNESCO. He was the winner of the 1969 AAAS-Westinghouse science-writing prize; the Bradford Washbur Award; and the Hugo (twice) the Nebula and the John W. Campbell Awards. His bestsellers include Childhood's End; 2001: A Space Odyssey; 2010: Odyssey Two; 2061: Odyssey Three and most recently, 3001: The Final Odyssey, Rama II, The Garden of Rama and Rama Revealed (with Gentry Lee) In 1968 he shared an Oscar Academy Award nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the film version of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He co-broadcasted the Apollo 11 12 and 15 missions with Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra for CBS. His invention of methods of communication with satellites in geostationary orbit in 1945 has brought him numerous honors, such as the 1982 Marconi International Fellowship; a gold medal of the Franklin Institute; the Vikram Sarabhai Professorship of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad; the Lindbergh Award and a Fellowship of King's College, London. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society and many other scientific organizations. Sir Arthur was presented the Award of Knight Bachelor on 26 May, 2000, at a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka where he has lived since 1956. On 14 November 2005 Sri Lanka awarded Arthur C. Clarke its highest civilian award, the Lankabhimanaya (Pride of Lanka) award, for his contributions to science and technology and his commitment to his adopted country. . Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo (5.75 x 8.5").

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