# Prelude to Space

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- Book: [Prelude to Space](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-c-clarke/prelude-to-space) ([Prelude to Space.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-c-clarke/prelude-to-space.md))
- Authors: [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.bookquiver.com/arthur-c-clarke)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7512-181-2
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Divided between the tensions of behind-the-scenes preparations in London and the drama of the launch-pad in Australia, this vintage Arthur C. Clarke novel recounts the events leading up to an epoch-making interplanetary space flight. Precise in his recording of facts, perceptive in his intuitions, Clarke's historian hero is the ideal narrator of this epic chain of events.