"Arthur C Clarke - Pruess, Paul - Venus Prime Vol1" - читать интересную книгу автора (Clarke Arthur C)

1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Text and artwork
copyright й 1999 by Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc.
Arthur C. ClarkeТs Venus Prime is a trademark of
Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc.
Published by arrangement with Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc.
An ibooks, inc. Book
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book
or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.
Distributed by Simon and Schuster, Inc.
1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
ibooks, inc.
24 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
The ibooks World Wide Web Site Address is:
http://www.ibooksinc.com
ISBN 0-671-03888-5
First Pocket Books printing September 1999
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
POCKET and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Cover art by Jim Burns
Cover design by Claude Goodwin and Dean Motter
Interior design by Michael Mendelsohn and MM Design 2000, Inc.
Printed in the U.S.A.
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to Kristina Anderson, San Francisco artist and
bookbinder, for an introduction to the bookmakerТs craft.
Carol Dawson, writer, and Lenore Coral, librarian at Cornell,
refreshed my memories of London in general and SothebyТs
in particular. My daughter, Mona Helen Preuss, slogged
through old auction catalogues at the library of the University
of California and Berkeley. The staff of the rare-book room
of the San Francisco Public Library were customarily, anonymously,
efficient and helpful. Thanks to them all, and let them
be reassured that my mistakes are my own.
ЧPaul Preuss
1
Introduction
by ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Unlike some authors, I have not generally been
given to collaborative work in the science fiction
area, especially in regard to my novels which, for
the most part, have been written alone. There have been,
however, some notable exceptions. In the 1960s, I worked
with director Stanley Kubrick on the most realistic SF film
done to that time, an ambitious little project called 2001:
A Space Odyssey. Over a decade and a half later, I had
another close encounter with a Hollywood director named
Peter Hyams, who produced and directed the visually impressive
adaptation of my sequel, 2010.