The Fountains of Paradise

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.

subjects: 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