the word 'ship' will mean - 'spaceship.' --where did Clark..

For all but a vanishing instant near the dawn of history, the word
'ship' will mean - 'spaceship.' --Arthur C. Clarke

Where did Clarke write this? I know I read the original source years
ago but can't locate it. And while this quote appears widely on the
Web, nobody ever gives the source.

Thanks for any info about the source.

In alt.books.arthur-clarke message <0d4584af-8fa3-4d53-baf7-76c7d1a597d0
@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>, Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:29:16, Art Haupt
posted:
>For all but a vanishing instant near the dawn of history, the word
>'ship' will mean - 'spaceship.' --Arthur C. Clarke
>
>Where did Clarke write this? I know I read the original source years
>ago but can't locate it. And while this quote appears widely on the
>Web, nobody ever gives the source.
>
>Thanks for any info about the source.

In my paperback copy of ACC's "Voices from the Sky", the chapter "Ships
for the Stars" ends with nearly that :

For all but a brief moment near the dawn of history,
the word 'ship' will mean simply - 'spaceship.'

Publisher Mayflower pbk, 5/-, UK, 1969 (hbk Gollancz 1966).

ACC may, of course, have used your form elsewhere.

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