The View from Serendip by Arthur C. Clarke - 1978

New York: Del Ray. September 1978. First Ballantine Books Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Binding is straight and tight. Interior is unmarked. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Mostly essays, with one short story, "When the Twerms Came." The essays were written in the 1960s and 1970s for various magazines; though many have extensive prefatory and/or concluding notes.

Contents: Concerning Serendipity; Dawn of the Space Age; Servant Problem, Oriental Style; The Scent of Treasure; The Stars in Their Courses; How to Dig Space; A Breath of Fresh Vacuum; The World of 2001; "And Now, Live from the Moon ... "; Time and the Times; The Next Twenty Years; Satellites and Saris; The Sea of Sinbad; Willy and Chesley; Mars and the Mind of Man; The Snows of Olympus; Introducing Isaac Asimov; Life in Space; Last (?) Words on UFOs; When the Twerms Came (short story); The Clarke Act; Technology and the Limits of Knowledge; To the Committee on Space Science; The Second Century of the Telephone; Ayu Bowan!