Entrée principale:

Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008, author.

Titre et auteur:

1984, spring : a choice of futures / Arthur C. Clarke.

Édition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York : Ballantine Books, 1984.

Description:

x, 259 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
"A Del Rey book."
pt. 1. The weapons of peace. Beyond the global village -- New communications and the developing world -- In the halls of the knights -- To Russia, with love ... -- War and peace in the space age -- Electronics and education -- A flash of golden fire -- pt. 2. Apollo and after. The eve of Apollo -- Apollo plus ten -- Space flight: imagination and reality -- The discovery of the solar system -- Viking on the plain of gold -- Space facts and space fallacies -- Predictions -- pt. 3. The literary scene. Of sand and stars -- Last and first books -- The poetry of space -- Shaw and the sound barrier -- Richard Jefferies -- Who's afraid of Leonard Woolf? -- With Brendan Behan -- The science fiction hall of fame -- My four feet on the ground -- The web between the worlds -- Mysterious world -- Writing to sell -- pt. 4. From the coast of coral -- Beneath the Indian Ocean -- The last wilderness -- The people of the sea -- Tourism: the challenge of change -- The menace of creationism.

Résumé:

A collection of the author's articles, essays, and speeches expounding on war and peace, the frontiers of space, the need for global communications, and other problems of the world.

ISBN:

0345313577
9780345313577

Sujet:

Twentieth century Forecasts.
Civilization, Modern 1950-
Vingtième siècle Prévisions.
Civilisation 1950-
Civilization, Modern.
Twentieth century.

Classification/genre:

Essays.
Speeches (documents).
Forecasts.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main price 267911
Cote: BIB 199774
Statut: Disponible