Glide Path

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Glide Path
First edition
Author	Arthur C. Clarke
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Harcourt Brace
Publication date	1963
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	229 pp
ISBN	NA

Glide Path is a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1963. Clarke's only non-science fiction novel, it is set during World War II, and tells a fictionalized version of the development of the radar-based ground-controlled approach (called "ground-controlled descent" in the novel) aircraft landing system, and includes a character modeled on Luis Alvarez, who developed this system. It is based on Clarke's own wartime service with the Royal Air Force, during which he worked on the GCA project.

References

Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent. p. 102. ISBN 0-911682-20-1.

Arthur C. Clarke

Novels

Prelude to Space
The Sands of Mars
Islands in the Sky
Childhood's End
Earthlight
The Deep Range
A Fall of Moondust
Dolphin Island
Glide Path
Imperial Earth
The Fountains of Paradise
The Songs of Distant Earth
Cradle
The Ghost from the Grand Banks
The Hammer of God
Richter 10 (with Mike McQuay)
The Trigger (with Michael Kube-McDowell)
The Light of Other Days (with Stephen Baxter)
The Last Theorem (with Frederik Pohl)

Novel series

Space Odyssey	2001: A Space Odyssey 2010: Odyssey Two 2061: Odyssey Three 3001: The Final Odyssey The Lost Worlds of 2001

Rama series	Rendezvous with Rama Rama II The Garden of Rama Rama Revealed

A Time Odyssey	Time's Eye Sunstorm Firstborn

Vanamonde series	Against the Fall of Night The City and the Stars Beyond the Fall of Night

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