Spring: 1984 - A Choice Of Futures: Arthur C. Clarke

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Spring: 1984 - A Choice Of Futures: Arthur C. ClarkeAn immensely readable and stimulating collection of essays examining the enormous possibilities the human race now has for creativity and destruction. Against Orwell's ominous date 1984 he has deliberately set the hopeful word Spring because he feels the worst of the world's long winter may well be over. Clarke's passionate interest in space exploration, vast knowledge of technological and scientific developments and his informed, optimistic humanism

but he couldn't quite remember why

Merlin must answer that question if this time of kings and lovers is to be saved

and the astrological symbols

She is the lone holdout in the jury that tries him

At the height of the London Blitz

He has a built up a secret cache of rubber

she can analyse a director's technique

All they have fought for is about to fall into endless night and it may be too late to save one Companion from his doom

The Mousewife

Rin throws herself into the struggle using the fearsome power bestowed on her by the vengeful god Phoenix

a father broken by war

Book III of The Gap Cycle