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The View from Serendip (Hardcover)

by Arthur Charles Clarke (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 273 pages
  • Publisher: Random House (Sep 1977)
  • ISBN-10: 0394417968
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394417967
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars The View from Serendip, 5 Oct 2003
By Robert Holm (at home behind my keyboard) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The View from Serendip (Hardcover)
This book is a collection of 25 essays by Clarke, written over a period of ten years (most of them had been previously published in various magazines). Some of these essays are auto-biographical, describing Clarke's life in Sri Lanka (the island was once called Serendip, hence the name of the book), one is a very short piece of fiction ("When the Twerms Came"), and the rest are mostly technical, describing the future of mankind in space, in Clarke's usual style. All the previously published essays have up-to-date (in 1977) introductions, and most of them also have afterwords with additional musings and observations by Clarke.
Since the material in this book is now 25-35 years old, most of the technical stuff is quite dated, but that is not to say that these essays aren't interesting. Clarke's wit and elegant prose is, as always, a delight to read, and it is interesting to see how accurate (and in some cases not so accurate) his predictions have been over the years. And a lot of what he says is still relevant today, since his writings about space usually take the long-term view. However, considering its age, this book will nowadays be of interest to Clarke fans only.
Some of the essays have been reprinted in other Clarke collections.
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