ISLANDS IN THE SKY

by Arthur C. Clarke

$750 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Philadelphia, Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, 1952 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. As his prize for winning a TV quiz show in the second half of the twenty-first century, a young man is given the opportunity to visit an orbiting space station. His adventures there include a runaway rocket ship, the making of a space film, and a confrontation with space pirates. A plausible and accurate fictional tour of the space

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