OTHER 📖 BOOKS 📚 BY ARTHUR CLARKE 🚀interplanetary flight 🌴 islands 🌴 in the sky 🌌 the exploration of space 🚀 prelude to space 🚀 the exploration of the moon 🌙 against the fall of night going into space 🚀 the sands of mars☄️ the coast of coral 👶 childhood's end the making of the moon 🌙 expedition to earth 🌏 the reefs of Taprobane 🌏 earthlight voice 🗣across the sea 🌊 reach for tomorrow the challenge of the sea 🌊 tales from the white ❤️ hart profiles of the future the deep range voices🗣 from the sky 🌌 the other side of the sky 🌌 the promise of space 🚀 across the sea 🌊 of stars ✨ report 📋🔛planet three a fall of moon 🌙 dust the first five fathoms from the ocean 🌊 from the stars ✨ boy beneath the sea 🌊 tales of ten worlds 🇮🇳n Ocean 🌊 adventure dolphin 🐬 island 🌴 🇮🇳n ocean 🌊 adventure 🐬 island 🌴 🇮🇳n ocean 🌊 adventure & treasure glide path the treasure of the great 👍 reef the lion 🦁 of comarre the view from serendip the nine billion +billion names of God prelude of mars ☄️with the editors of life–⏱man 👩🏼‍🚀👨🏼‍🚀and space 🚀the lost 🌎s of 2001 the wind 💨 from the sun ☀️ Rendezvous with 🐑a with the astronauts 👩🏼‍🚀👨🏼‍🚀first on the moon 🌙 imperial earth🌍🌏 🌎with Robert Silverberg into space 🚀 with 🎬🎥Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space 🚀 Odyssey 🎦with Chesley Bonestell ! Beyond Jupiter Editorial newspaper soft power soft news 🌐Time Probe The Coming of the space 🚀 age three for tomorrow's 📖 📚 harcourt brace jovanovich 🇺🇸 New York • SF🌉+London 🇬🇧 to the still–unfading memory of Leslie Ekanayake (13 July–4 July 1977) only perfect 👌 friend of a lifetime, in whom were uniquely combined Loyalty, Intelligence and Compassion. When your radiant and loving spirit vanished from this world 🌎 the light went out of many lives. Nirvana prapto bhuyat☮️politics 🗽🏛🕌🕍⛩🕋and⛪️religion ☯️✝️☪️🕉✡️🔯🛐are 🍐 almost obsolete⁉️the time has come for 🔬social 🔬 and as diplomat 🇲🇽 🐶lone gone 🐝✍🏼 writer Carlos ⛲️Fuentes gringo 👴❕extremely occidental geopolitical ecumenical 🏨spiritualist Catholics 🙏 Sri Jawaharlal Nehru To the Ceylon Association for the hopes 🔛the Advancement of Social 🔬researchers 🔬 Colombo, 15 October 1962 ..."from paradise to Taprobane is forty leagues; there may be heard the sound of the fountains of Paradise". Traditional Reported by Friar Marignolli, A.D. 1335 The country I have called Taprobane does not quite exist, but is about ninety percent congruent with the island 🌴 of Ceylon (now 🇱🇰). Though the Sources and Acknowledgments will make clear what 😶 locations , events, and personalities are based on fact , the reader will not go far wrong in assuming that the more unlikely the story, the closer it is to reality . The name "Taprobane " is now usually spoken to rhyme with "plain", but the correct classical pronunciation is "Tap-ROB-a-nee"—as Milton , of course , in 📖 Paradise Regained , 📖 Book 📚 IV, well knew: "From 🇮🇳 🇮🇳 and the Golden Chersoness And utmost 🇮🇳n Isle Taprobane...".