SF Masterworks: The Fountains Of Paradise

By Arthur C. Clarke

Paperback

One of Clarke's most famous and acclaimed novels, winner of both 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.