Time Probe: The Sciences in Science Fiction
Edited by Arthur C. Clarke
Cover artist: Paul Lehr
Publisher: Dell
Pub year: 1967
Cover price: 75¢
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Edited by Arthur C. Clarke
Cover artist: Paul Lehr
Publisher: Dell
Pub year: 1967
Cover price: 75¢
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From astronomy to cybernetics, from physics to biology, from Asimov to Vance — a connoisseur's collection..."the best in the genre!"
—The New York Times
Major: Science Fiction
Arthur C. Clarke, famed Dean of Science-Fiction, has prepared an outstanding eleven-star course in scientific and technological entertainments. Each story concerns an aspect of science or technology — archaeology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, cybernetics, detereology, exobiology, mathematics, medicine, physics and physiology.
Included on the honor roll:
Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Murray Leinster, Cyril Kornbluth, Theodore L. Thomas, Philip Latham, James H. Schmitz, Jack Vance, Robert Silverberg, Julian Huxley, and the Master himself Arthur C. Clarke.
"Vivid tales filled with ingenious science, dashing narrative drive and a sense of wonder."
—Playboy
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Arthur C. Clarke's Time Probe: The Sciences in Science Fiction a unique excursion into the fantasy world of scientific fact with some of the most imaginative denizens of the realm.