The fountains of paradise

By Arthur C. Clarke

Subjects: award:hugo_award=novel, Science Fiction, award:nebula_award=novel, Monks, Fiction, general, English Science fiction, Large type books, Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1980, Fiction, Elevators, Religious aspects of Mountains, Design and construction, Fiction, religious, Fiction, science fiction, general, Mountains, Interplanetary voyages

Description: In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.