157 pages
English language
Published March 8, 1977 by Sidgwick & Jackson.
Arthur C. Clarke: Earthlight (1977, Sidgwick & Jackson)
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- 978-0-283-97905-7
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From back cover Del Rey paperback September 1991:
THE TIE THAT BINDS
The human race had been born on a unique world... a world loaded with mineral wealth, unmatched elsewhere in the solar system. This accident of fate gave a flying start to man's technology -- but it made man dependent on his home world.
What were the independent republics on Mars and Venus to do? United in a Federation, they were still dependent on Earth for such essentials as mercury, lead, uranium -- and modern technology could not survive without them.
There had to be a better way...
