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Home Arthur C. Clarke The Wind From the Su. The enormous disc of sail strained at its rigging, already filled with the wind that blew between the worlds.

Home Arthur C. In three minutes the race would begin, yet now John Merton felt more relaxed, more at peace, than at any time for the past year. Whatever happened when the Commodore gave the starting signal, whether Diana carried him to victory or defeat, he had achieved his ambition. Even if the race was abandoned, he could make a crossing to the Moon that would stand in the record books for generations. Clarke The Wind From the Sun. Home. The wind from the sun, . But that would be worse than stupidity; it would be suicide- and a very unpleasant form of suicide. He had seen men die of radiation poisoning, when the magnetic shielding of their ships had failed in deep space.

Start by marking The Wind From the Sun as Want to Read . A volume containing all 18 short stories written by Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s. In the preface to this book, Clarke states that all of the short stories he wrote in the 60's (and three from the early 70's) are included

Start by marking The Wind From the Sun as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves. In the preface to this book, Clarke states that all of the short stories he wrote in the 60's (and three from the early 70's) are included. There are 18 stories here, most of them quite short but all packing a punch as relevant today as back in the Space Age when they were written.

The Wind from the Sun (. ISBN 0-15-196810-1) is a 1972 collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. Some of the stories originally appeared in a number of different publications. Some of the stories originally appeared in a number of different publications

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Arthur C. Other author's books: The Wind From the Sun. Menu. Listen to books in audio format instead of reading. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as an RAF radar instructor, rising to the rank of Flight-Lieutenant. After the war he won a BSc in physics and mathematics with first class honours from King's College, London. In the preface to "The Wind from the Sun", Arthur Clarke's collection of Sixties' short stories, the author jokes that he had considered the subtitle "The Last of Clarke" for this volume. This turned out to be prophetic - Clarke being Clarke - since he largely focused on novels in his career after 1970. Wind" represents a mixed bag of work from Clarke, generally hailed as one of the titans of twentieth century SF.

They depict a future in which technologies are beginning to dictate man's lifestyle - even to demand life for themselves. Contentsvii, Preface (The Wind from the Sun),. Reach for Tomorrow.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Clarke is considered to be the greatest science fiction writer of all time. He is an international treasure in many other ways: An article written by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Mr. Clarke-both fiction and nonfiction-have more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide. He lives in Sri Lanka. Библиографические данные. The wind from the sun: stories of the space age A Signet Book.