The View from Serendip

The View from Serendip (Random House, 1977)

As you'll see from the contents, as with the above book, Clarke ranges all over the place. However, can anybody ever really introduce Isaac Asimov? If there's a theme to this book, it's Clarke's love of his adopted home of Sri Lanka.

Counts as 25 essays for the 2004 Short Story Project.

Contents: Concerning Serendipity; Dawn of the Space Age; Servant Problem—Oriental Style; The Scent of Treasure; The Stars in Their Courses; How to Dig Space; A Breath of Fresh Vacuum; The World of 2001; "And Now—Live from the Moon..."; Time and the Times; The Next Twenty Years; Satellites and Saris; The Sea of Sinbad; Willy and Chesley; Mars and the Mind of Man; The Snows of Olympus; Introducing Isaac Asimov; Life in Space; Last (?) Words on UFO's; When the Twerms Came; The Clarke Act; Technology and the Limits of Knowledge; To the Committee on Space Science; The Second Century of the Telephone; "Ayu Bowan!".