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The Fountains of Paradise

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Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2022

Fiction
Mountains
Elevators
Monks
Design and construction
Religious aspects of Mountains
Science Fiction
Hugo Award Winner

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.