The fountains of paradise
Title:
The fountains of paradise
Author:
Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008.
ISBN:
9781857987218
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
257 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
SF masterworks ; 34
SF masterworks ; 34.
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979.
This edition first published in Great Britain in 2000 by Millennium an imprint of Victor Gollancz.
Abstract:
Van Morgan is the greatest civil engineer of the mid-22nd century. After building a bridge across the Straits of Gibralter, he dreams of greater accomplishments -- a bridge to space, a "skyhook" or "space elevator". It will be a cable stretching from the Earth's equator to an anchoring satellite in geosynchronous orbit.
