- Spaceflight, Space Ships, Engineering, Science Fiction
The world's first lunar spacecraft is about to launch. The ship, Prometheus, is built from two separate components—one designed to travel from Earth's atmosphere to the Moon and back, and the other to carry the first component through Earth's atmosphere and into orbit.
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Grave, earnest, cool and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Arthur C. Clarke
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Del Rey, Harcourt, Brace & World, Arnoldo Mondadori
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Italian, English
- ISBN
- 9780283484193
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Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. He is famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularising science. These along with his science fiction writings eventuall
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