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The Fountains of Paradise

by Arthur C. Clarke

256 pages · 1979

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In the 22nd century, visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, one which will revolutionize the future of humans in space - a space elevator, 36,000 kilometres high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.

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