• Publication: Report on Planet Three and Other SpeculationsPublication Record # 717741
• Author: Arthur C. Clarke
• Date: date unknown
• ISBN: 0-451-07864-0 [978-0-451-07864-3]
• Catalog ID: W7864
• Publisher: Signet / New American Library
• Pages: x+224
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: NONFICTION
• Notes: Paperback issue of the 1972 Harper & Row edition. 1st Signet printing Feb. 1973. As per number line, 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13, this is the 5th printing. Price of book is inked out. Cover art (photo) not identified. The essays are numbered 1 to 23, in five named sections: I (Talking of Space, 1-4), II (Outward from Earth, 5-12), III (The Technological Future, 13-15), IV (Frontiers of Science, 16-19), V (Son of Dr. Strangelove, Etc...., 20-23).
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 74-156515

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Preface (Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations) • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 11 • Report on Planet Three • (1959) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 18 • The Men on the Moon • (1958) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 28 • Meteors • (1959) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 37 • The Star of the Magi • (1959) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of The Star of Bethlehem 1954)
• 47 • Vacation in Vacuum • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 58 • So You're Going to Mars? • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 68 • Next—the Planets! • (1968) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 79 • The Planets Are Not Enough • (1955) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 89 • When the Aliens Come • (1968) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 102 • Possible, That's All! • (1968) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 109 • God and Einstein • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 110 • Across the Sea of Stars • (1959) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 117 • The Mind of the Machine • (1968) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 129 • Technology and the Future • (1967) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 141 • Beyond Babel • (1969) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 155 • More Than Five Senses • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 165 • Things That Can Never Be Done • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 174 • The World We Cannot See • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 185 • Things in the Sky • (1959) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 197 • Which Way Is Up? • (1959) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 207 • Haldane and Space • (1968) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 214 • Son of Dr. Strangelove • (1972) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 222 • The Myth of 2001 • (1969) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke