Voices From The Sky: Previews of The Coming Space Age
New York: Harper& Row, 1965. Hardcover. Hardcover. 241 pp. Second or later printing. Fine in price clipped dust jacket with a some wear to the extremities and a small chip upper right tip. A prescient, provocative collection of pieces about the space age and communications satellites published during the early years of manned space flight. The book is divided into three sections. The first is about space travel and other aspects of the new space age--how our concept of time must be modified when we travel long distances, the "space seas" of tomorrow, uses of the moon, how lower gravity will affect the sports of space colonists. The second section deals with communication satellites; insights on the social consequences of Comsats and how they could promote a common language for the world, affect sleeping habits, etc. The third section ranges over a wide variety of subject matter, many pieces in a lighter vein about scientific meddling, the lunatic fringe, etc. Fine / very good. Item #E33860
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