title: Report on Planet Three and Other Speculations
author:  Arthur C. Clarke 
description: REPORT ON PLANET THREE by Arthur C. Clarke. Harper &amp; Row, New York, U.S.A. 1972. 250pp. 5.75x8.50x1.00. Stated "First Edition". Hardcover in VERY GOOD COLLECTIBLE condition. Black, white, yellow, orange dust jacket is bright with light edgewear, light rubbing and tiny 1/4-inch tear top front cover, and one small tape repair top spine corner, price is unclipped. Hardcover is orange paper over boards with publisher's gold embossed stamp on front cover. Black cloth spine with title and author name stamped in gold and silver. All interior pages clean and unmarked. A remarkable, prescient collection of essays about space phenomena and science fiction which guides the reader on a tour of the universe. SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE (1917-2008) wrote the novel and co-authored the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, and he is the only science-fiction writer to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. His fiction and nonfiction have sold more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide. Very nice COLLECTIBLE FIRST EDITION.
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  THE BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP
  
  
  This book is affectionately and gratefully dedicated to
  
  
    
  Graham Hamilton
  
  
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  The Washington hung behind the largest of the three moons that circled the
  subject planet, while probes began their exploratory flights. Thian had
  control of those investigating the planet while Clancy and Semirame Kloo had
  sent theirs to the sphere set in a geosynchronous orbit above what appeared to
  be the same sort of flat field used for Hiver 