Table of Contents

Preface
Foreword by Patrick Moore
Foreword by Isaac Asimov

1: Earth, 1917
2: Moonward from Somerset
3: Terrestrial Inspirations
4: Ego in London
5: Into the Royal Air Force
6: The Promise of Space
7: New Shores
8: Writer, with Wife
9: Toward Southern Stars
10: Around the World to Ceylon
11: Space Age Dreams
12: The Space Circuit
13: Down to Earth
14: Silver Linings
15: Paralysis
16: Return to Great Basses
17: The Genesis of 2001: A Space Odyssey
18: A Cosmic Classic
19: The Lunar Age Begins
20: Man on the Moon
21: Jetting for the Future
22: The Unravelling of the `Alien' Project
23: Set of the Sails - 232
24: The Space Elevator: After the Laughing Stops
25: From Sri Lanka to Titan
26: Perturbations in Time
27: Transits, Eclipses
28: Odyssey's Return
29: World Telecommunications Year
30: Nineteen Eighty-Four
31: A Near and Distant Earth
32: Borrowed Time
33: Threescore and Ten
34: New Lease on Life
35: A Solo Novel and Sundry Pieces
36: Into the 1990s
37: Last Years of the 20th Century
38: Arthur Ambiguous
39: 2000: The Prelude Year
40: The Longest Year: The Real 2001
41: Into the 21st Century
42: Witness to Tsunami
43: 2001: The View from 2010
44: The Final Years
45: Two Media One Last Time (And a 90th Birthday Party)
46: Earth 2008: Last Days

Letter from Tom Hanks
Meeting Arthur Clarke in Hollywood - Ray Bradbury
`Space Cadets' in the Early Space Age - Walter Cronkite & Arthur Clarke
Acknowledgments
Sources: Selected Interviews
Endnotes
Arthur C. Clarke Predictions and the Emerging Future
About the Author

About the Author

Neil McAleer is the writer of several non-fiction books in the popular-science and science-fact genres. One of those titles, The Omni Space Almanac, won the 1988 Robert S. Ball Award from the Aviation and Space Writers Association.
He has also published works of fiction and biography, and has contributed science pieces to more than two dozen magazines and newspapers, including Smithsonian's Air and Space, OMNI Magazine, Popular Science, Discover, The Baltimore Sun, The Denver Post, The L.A. Times, and various news syndications. He lives in Catonsville, MD.