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Prelude to Space is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. The story is set in the near future and follows the first manned spaceflight from Earth to the Moon.The novel begins with the discovery of a strange object in space, which is found to…
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Arthur C. Clarke is my favorite of the “Big Three” giants of the golden age of science fiction. His clear prose and hard-science background mix with big ideas, optimism, and flashes of poetic brilliance, and these qualities are all just getting off the ground in his first novel. Clarke wrote it in 1947, right after he had left his work as a radar engineer for the RAF.
It is the realistic story of an international effort to put men on the moon, written 10 years before NASA was founded and 22 years before humanity succeeded. I was amazed by the…
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