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PRELUDE TO SPACE

hortly after World War II, a young Arthur C. Clarke penned a work of speculative documentary fiction: his account of mankind’s first foray to the moon. Written in 1947, has that accomplishment taking place in 1978—nearly a decade, we know now, after the real-life moonshot.

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