Glide Path: To The Heart of Experimental TechologyWWII

There was a time when the uses of radar would have seemed as fantastic as anything conceived by writers of science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, whose own fiction has consistently anticipated the actual achievements of science, has turned the clock back, for a change, and written a wholly realistic novel about the early, exciting, exploratory days of radar in World War II.
Glide Path concerns the joint efforts of a group of brilliant scientists, courageous flyers, and specially trained servicemen, working under pressure, to perfect a radar talk-down system for planes, called Ground Controlled Descent. It has the authoritative ring of a documentary, the lucidity that makes technical matters comprehensible to the layman, and the special fascination of an inside story about crucial top-secret activities.
This story is not only a departure for Arthur C. Clarke, it is an engaging, engrossing, ultimately tense and dramatic novel in its own right.

Arthur C. Clarke is the world-renowned author of such science fiction classics as 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, for which he shared an Oscar nomination with director Stanley Kubrick, and its popular sequels, 2010: ODYSSEY TWO, 2061: ODYSSEY THREE, and 3001: FINAL ODYSSEY; the highly acclaimed THE SONGS OF DISTANT EARTH; the bestselling collection of original short stories, THE SENTINAL; and over two dozen other books of fiction and non-fiction. He received the Marconi International Fellowship in 1982.