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The Fountains of Paradise

Arthur C. Clarke

2

awards won

21

score

#128 of 8,085 books · #26 in Science Fiction

Won the Hugo Award for Best Novel (1980) and the Nebula Award for Best Novel (1979). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

The Fountains of Paradise won the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. 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 of space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.

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Publisher
Gollancz
ISBN-13
9780575121768
Topics
Space elevator engineeringFuture technology and progressMan vs nature ambition

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