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