![]() ![]() Thus, Clarke's 1951 novel "The Sands of Mars" featured what may have been the first reasonably realistic fictional depiction of a spacecraft powered by a fusion rocket. But as a young man, working with early space-advocacy bodies such as the British Interplanetary Society (BIS), he contributed to speculative but realistic designs of craft capable of interplanetary travel, as documented in his highly readable nonfiction survey "Interplanetary Flight" (1950) as well as in his fiction. ![]() And that background is reflected in his fiction.īorn in 1917, Clarke had grown up with gaudy and mostly impractical pulp-era visions of spaceflight. Clarke was a real-world spaceflight visionary, but he never forgot his boyhood science-fiction dreams. ![]()
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