Playbill
May, 1960
Arthur C. Clarke is an amiable, pleasantly schizoid Englishman: one side of him writes strictly factual articles and books on astrophysics, missiles and rocketry; the other side writes flamboyantly imaginative science-fiction about the shape of things to come. For this May Playboy, Clarke has succeeded in merging his two professional personalities by writing I Remember Babylon, a unique, disturbing piece in which fact and fiction are inextricably mingled. It is told in the first person singular...
