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The Fountains of Paradise (SF Masterworks, #34)

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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.

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Jun 25, 2010 Stephen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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4.5 to 5.0 stars. Definitely one of Clarke's best novels, which is saying something given his tremendous body of work. The novel, as most of Clarke's work, was respectful of the scientific basis required for the story but never let itself get bogged down in overly long technical explanations. A superb story that once again reaffirms that man can do just about anythign if he sets his mind to it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Winner: Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1980)
Winner: Nebula Award for B...more

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Aug 18, 2008 Matt rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I was disappointed in this book, though I confess that part of it is my fault. Clarke didn't tell the story that I wanted him to tell, and this is always an unfair expectation on the part of the reader. "If you want a particular story, you should write it yourself." is the rightful reply of the writer. But I'm only human, and when I get figs when I was expecting chocolate, I'm disappointed (even if I like figs, which I do).

'The Fountains of Paradise' is about mankind's first attempt to construct...more I was disappointed in this book, though I confess that part of it is my fault. Clarke didn't tell the story that I wanted him to tell, and this is always an unfair expectation on the part of the reader. "If you want a particular story, you should write it yourself." is the rightful reply of the writer. But I'm only human, and when I get figs when I was expecting chocolate, I'm disappointed (even if I like figs, which I do).

'The Fountains of Paradise' is about mankind's first attempt to construct a space elevator. It would perhaps be more precise to say that it is about one man's attempt to construct a space elevator, as Clarke suffers from his usual failing of trying to tell grand world transforming stories from the viewpoint of a single individual who has limited social interaction. The result is that the largest enterprise ever undertaken by man is made to feel like it's a small business with perhaps five employees.

But that would not have particularly disappointed me had not the whole matter been made to seem so easy. One of my particular and growing pet peeves is science fiction that makes the conquest of space seem like it ought to be a trivial matter. I'm increasingly of the conviction that science fiction - which had been and ought to still be at the forefront of encouraging us to set our sights on the heavens, grow up, and leave the nest - is instead becoming a hindrance to us. We are increasingly becoming content with shoddy poorly realized visions of the stars that serve to make the real painful and difficult work of space exploration seem just that much less attractive. In the stories, it is always so easy. We flit across the unimaginable gulfs between stars not with the comparative ease with which we crossed the oceans (much less a real sense of the difficulty involved), but with the ease that we drive down to the corner convenience store. If it seems hard to get from here to there, we find alien artifacts that do the hard work for us. If we despair at our ability to cope, well then we are uplifted from our ignorance by passing benevolent alien patrons. We break the laws of physics with the power of plot, and we settle into the easy fantasies of human hubris rather than face up to the immensity of Old Man Space with some sort of maturity.

Part of the problem is that only the last one third of the book actually concerns the construction of the space elevator. By the time the construction of the space elevator is really joined, its completion is a foregone conclusion and the great problems are dispensed with off stage in favor of smaller scale and more personnel tragedies and triumphs. It is as if the project the artist has conceived is too grand of scale for his imagination, and so he deals with something that isn't. The result ends up seeming less grand than even, for example, the story of the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable.(For example.)

But the biggest disappointment is that the first two thirds of the book don't deal directly with the construction of the tower at all, but instead deal with the protagonist's struggle to obtain permission to build the space elevator on land currently occupied by an unwilling Buddhist monastery. This part of the story is more engaging than the last third but ultimately Clarke forces it to resolve down to just another story about the supposed conflict between reason and faith. Despite the fact that these first 200 pages have the structure of a good 20 page short story, they would make for pretty good reading in Clarke's capable hands except that in the midst of this he finds himself unable to avoid picking up the trite hammer to nail his point home.

Given how I've already confessed that I hoped this would be the story of the titanic struggle to conquer near space, you can perhaps imagine my dismay when Clarke trots out that most tired of easy sci-fi escapes - the Alien Messiah. Interspersed with this conflict between reason and faith in the form of the passively truculent monks standing in the way of human progress, Clarke adds an utterly unnecessary plot element of an alien visitor who is made to represent the last word in this metaconflict. Exactly why Clarke thought the story was well served by such a ham-handed device, I'm not sure because without it I think the story and the conflict is more thought provoking and its precise meaning more difficult to tease out. I will grant that as Alien Messiah's go this one is pretty original and well disguised. Instead of an actual alien, it's the AI of survey probe of alien manufacture. And it does not in fact bequeath the usual super-science on the otherwise helpless mankind and thereby usher in an age of peace, abundance, and justice. However, other than that it's a pretty typical Alien Messiah that saves mankind from itself and I was hoping at the outset that we could perhaps for once have a story without the intervention of a super-alien at all.

In this case, the salvation takes the form of eliminating all religions from the Earth. Instead of bestowing on mankind the usual technological wisdom, it dispences philosophy.

I kid you not. Arthur C. Clarke - avowed atheist - imagines an alien from on high come to Earth and pronounce in its irrefutable superhuman wisdom, that Arthur C. Clarke has been right all along and all religions are hooey. Now who could have guessed that twist? It's such a jarringly humorous and incongruous episode in the middle of the rest of the story that I really didn't know what to make of it. Is Clarke trying to be nasty here? Or, is he trying to make a joke? Is he convincing himself, or does he have some motive for deliberately advancing an extremely weak argument involving among other things the misuse of Ockham's razor, a failure to really consider the different role of infinite and finite numbers, a red herring, and a failure to consider the cosmological and theological import of the big bang?

Whatever Clarke's larger intent, within the setting Clarke's technological prophet is taken with such seriousness that we are told virtually all religious belief ceases and human spiritual activity reaches an atheistic eschaton. Just like that, a new age dawns. Exactly why the unambiguous refutation of Thomas Aquinas would accomplish this is not really addressed, but for me as a computer scientist it does raise an interesting question of the presumed sophont class of the probe in question that it was able in under an hour to exceed the mental activities of "billions of words of pious gibberish with which apparently intelligent men had addled their minds for centuries." That is a god-like intelligence indeed! As Clarke puts it, "For the first time we knew what we'd always suspected, that ours was not the only intelligence in the universe, and that out among the stars were far older and perhaps far wiser civilizations."

And if Clarke's imaginary alien probe doesn't convince you that super-wise aliens will come along and usher in paradise on this Earth, well just what would? When I started the book I was most afraid I would be annoyed with the rampant use of unobtanium and handwavium in the construction of the space elevator. Little did I realize that the unobtainium in the elevator filaments would pale in comparison to the unobtainium in the philosophical constructs.

Still, for all that Clarke's digressions may annoy (or may stimulate depending on your philosophical inclinations), the first two thirds is still a good story. It's so good that when Clarke wraps this first story arc up, the remaining novel seems anticlimactic. The first part is so much better and more fully conceived that it as if the second shorter story arc is tacked on to fill out the story to a more respectable length. Much as I wanted the story to be about the second part, Clarke didn't seem to know what to do with it. So, in the end I got a good story, but it was far from the one that I wanted.(less)

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Jul 15, 2012 Tamahome rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Doing an Sffaudio readalong Sunday. I got kind of bored with it last time I tried it in the car. Will pay closer attention at home this time. What's all this king crap? Space elevators rule. I want that Bridge of Gibraltar from Africa to Europe to be real.

All done. Definitely to be read for the 'sensawonder' space elevator construction. Some may enjoy the history of King Kalidasa (King Kashyapa) and the Sri Lanka setting in the beginning. I thought a little too much time was spent on the 'A Fall ...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Jenny rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I didn't expect to like this. Space elevators, yawn.

The setting, in Sri Lanka, with the historic temple/kingdom/gardens - first of all I can't believe that place exists. But it does.

And then somehow it is the only appropriate place to build a space elevator. The story goes backwards and forwards in time. It triggered my imagination like when I was young!

ETA: We discussed this on the SFF Audio Podcast.

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Apr 27, 2012 Mike Moore rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An interesting exploration of the tension between artistic/technological ambition and sociopolitical practicality.

It's interesting to compare this to the Mars trilogy by Robinson, a conscious attempt to recreate Clarke's style which revisits a lot of the same themes and ideas of this book. While I didn't much care for "Red Mars", I quite liked this book. Clarke has a remarkable ability to blend his extrapolations with, not just action, but genuinely interesting storylines and characters.

My crit...more

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Jul 15, 2009 Shirari Industries rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: sci fi fans, engineers, futurists, utopians

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I'm a fan of Buckminster Fuller's world-changingly-big ideas for future human housing and transportation, so this book was right up my alley. Arthur C. Clarke tells the story of the construction of a "space elevator" and couches his suspenseful, fun narrative in a rich, invented history that has so many parallels to our own it's positively believable. Clarke seems to fall in the atheist camp, but the story playing with the "Tower of Babel" concept and the idea that engineering projects of this s...more

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Feb 12, 2013 Joyce Elferdink rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I bought the book to learn more about space elevators and Arthur C. Clarke didn't disappoint me there. Thirty-five years ago Clark imagined a time when Earthlings would find space travel available to the masses. How? By replacing rockets with an elevator moving straight up and down along hyperfilament thread held taught by an orbital anchor 31,000 miles up and a counterweight anchored in the ground on the equator.

The magnificent part of this story is that his vision may become a reality by the...more

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Nov 11, 2012 sologdin rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Nutshell: earthlings begin building skyhook, aliens show up, aliens go away, earthlings finish skyhook, yay!

Nifty parallel drawn between ancient monument builders and scifi megastructures through the use of an ancient Sri Lankan legend (or what purports to be, anyway). Lotsa technical detail. Whatever. Best parts of the book are the political interactions between interest groups regarding obstacles to building the space elevator. The main one, set up as structural to the narrative early on--reli...more

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Oct 21, 2012 Rob rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read most of Arthur C. Clarke work as a teenager, and I'm a huge fan. I read this book shortly after it came out, and just now I re-read it. This of course is one of his later books.

The book's main purpose seems to be to introduce and explain the idea of a space elevator (see the Wikipedia "Space elevator" article). It's a fascinating idea, and the author does a great job of explaining it.

Unfortunately, the characters and the plot are rather boring. Still, this was a fun read, and Clarke was v...more

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Sep 04, 2012 Michael Burnam-fink rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Science-fiction is a big genre, including everything from the trashiest 'rockets n' rayguns' schlock to serious sociological speculation. On that scale, The Fountains of Paradise falls clearly into the mega-engineering sub-genre, where rational yet humanistic men of science build immense engineering projects, and the author walks us through an exploration of their inner workings. In this case, the project is space elevator. The engineering is a little cursory, while harmonic and electrodynamic i...more

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Apr 04, 2012 Marjorie Baldwin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classic-scifi

This was my second-most favorite book of Clarke's (where The City and the Stars was my #1 fave). Fountains of Paradise really surprised me, after I'd gone through the Rama series of books (which I hated because I found them way too boring, dry and full of intellectual snobbery) Fountains of Paradise really reconnected me to the Clarke I'd fallen in love with when I read The City and the Stars. It has the same imaginative speculation with a sense of wonder at the universe--and Clarke poses the Qu...more

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Jan 26, 2012 Prashanth rated it 2 of 5 stars

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This is about an engineer's dream project - building a "bridge" to space (or rather the orbit around earth). Half through, there are indications of a future world that advances to a greater extent all thanks to this bridge. So, no surprises there - we know the bridge gets built and, as the book indicates at the very end, there's a human population permanently residing at the geo-sync orbit.

There are a few things going on in parallel to begin with. The story sadly doesn't sustain interest - can't...more

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Dec 06, 2011 Christopher rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This was a great read! Truly, the literary world of Science Fiction lost a giant when Arthur C. Clarke died. After all, few modern sci-fi authors could write a story about a space elevator, or "space bridge" as the main protagonist calls it, and make it interesting without resorting to some big action set piece we have come to expect from the genre. In many ways, this is a very tame book. Clarke treats the subject of the clash between science and religion in the first half of the novel with kid...more

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Jul 27, 2011 Steve Rippington rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is classic science fiction written by an absolute master. As ever, Clarke balances the human story with a heavy science bias, but written in an engaging and accessible way.

The premise of the book is essentiallly that an engineer decides to build the ultimate structure - a space elevator - making rockets into orbit unnecessary and making the solar system more accessibel to mankind. The science is basically sound, and most of the technology that he writes about now exists. I think thats what...more

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Apr 05, 2011 Valerie added it · review of another edition

I don't own a copy of this book, though I've read it. By the time I thought of collecting Clarke, bookstores had taken to selling only a few books each by prolific authors, and always the same three or four in all the new book stores, and three or four different ones in the used bookstores--but always the same three or four in each used bookstore, as well. I blame a change in the tax laws that taxed publishers for books kept in warehouses, which made it too expensive to keep slow-selling books i...more I don't own a copy of this book, though I've read it. By the time I thought of collecting Clarke, bookstores had taken to selling only a few books each by prolific authors, and always the same three or four in all the new book stores, and three or four different ones in the used bookstores--but always the same three or four in each used bookstore, as well. I blame a change in the tax laws that taxed publishers for books kept in warehouses, which made it too expensive to keep slow-selling books in stock. Perhaps Amazon.com has changed that, but I'm unlikely to find out--I've never bought anything from them, and probably never will.

By the time I came to this book, I was familiar with the idea of a Beanstalk. I'd read technical articles in the Journal of The British Interplanetary Society (probably where Clarke got the idea, or at least the technical details, since he was also a member. But he's likely to have invented some of the details himself, and maybe the idea).

I wasn't that interested in the plot. I was reading for technical details. The dedication to Clarke's Report on Planet Three reads: "In accordance with the terms of the Clarke/Asimov treaty, the second best science writer dedicates this book to the second best science fiction writer." I'd have reversed the attribution, myself. I always found Asimov's science articles a bit patronizing and pedantic, his sf stories better than average, and his jokes quite good. But for science/technology, I always preferred Clarke.

The bit I remember best is the part where the man climbing the partially built space elevator realizes that it's factors other than gravitational attenuation that result in people in Earth orbit being in free fall. He takes a leak--and realizes that he's still at about 1/2 gravity, and if he let go (and his safety tethers failed) he wouldn't just drift off if he couldn't grab back on--he'd fall. More slowly than if he'd started lower, for a while. And he'd probably run out of air long before he hit. But he WOULD fall, because he's stable perpendicular to the Earth, and not in orbit around it. Well explained, and well illustrated. Other bits were probably as good--but none were as memorable.(less)

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Dec 12, 2012 Gijs rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This science fiction novel combines three of Clarke's favorite topics; 1) his disdain for religion (see also The Songs Of Distant Earth), 2) contact with a mysterious alien civilisation (see also Rendezvous With Rama and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and 3) an optimistic view on scientific progress and technology.

In 'The Fountains of Paradise' Clarke investigates the probability of a space elevator, describing its origin and development, with a focus on its designer, engineer Van Morgan, and culminatin...more

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Aug 22, 2011 Luka Antonić rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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4.5 Really liked this one. Winner of both Hugo and Nebula award.

I always wanted to start reading Clarke with 2001 Space Odyssey, but I couldn't find it. So I took Fountains of Paradise, and haven't regretted. Main theme of this book is building space lift, or so called bridge, between Earth (more precisely Taprobane, today's Sri Lanka, more or less) and geostationary satellite. Something which, on first hearing looked to me as quite improbable idea, Clarke turned in very much possible and ration...more

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Dec 24, 2011 Eric Bauman rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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As I think I mentioned in my review for “Childhood’s End,” my interest in reading Clarke was spurred by an episode of “Prophets of Science Fiction” on the Science Channel. This was another book they talked about in that episode (the third, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” is also on loan from the library and I will probably be starting it this week sometime). Unlike that book, however, this one just didn’t quite work for me.

The premise is that an architect designs and then builds a “Space Elevator,” a t...more

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May 24, 2013 Mike Thomas rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a good book by Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1979, dealing with a mans desire to build a space elevator on the equator to transport men and materials to a point just outside the Earths atmosphere. The only worry is that the prime location for the elevator is on the peak of a sacred mountain, guarded by the monks who live there.This story is set in the land of Taprobane, which is a thin disguise for the authors home land, Sri Lanka. This is a great read, and somewhat visionary, as only a f...more

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Jan 13, 2012 Jim O'Loughlin rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Because of the project I'm working on, I was obligated to read Clarke's 1978 clunker, The Fountains of Paradise. The glue binding on the novel had broken down and I had to keep the whole thing together with a rubber band, which is a pretty apt metaphor for reading this novel.

This is exactly the kind of book that made the Cyberpunk movement a historical necessity. Clarke follows a myopic engineer, Morgan, who wants to follow up a successful bridge project with a space elevator. We are supposed to...more

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Dec 14, 2011 Rob rated it 4 of 5 stars

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...The Fountains of Paradise is an intellectually stimulating novel. I enjoyed reading it very much, in particular for the detail of the construction process on the space elevator. That being said, I'm not sure it is worthy of the awards is won. It contains a lot of stuff that Clarke had done before. Stylistically, Clarke is not a brilliant author and his characters are mostly fairly flat. By 1979 rigid scientific accuracy and a sense of wonder were no longer enough, or sometimes not even necess...more

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Feb 21, 2013 Lars rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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'The Fountains of Paradise' is another classic book of Arthur C. Clarke. And again, similar to 'Rendezvous with Rama', the novel didn't captivate me as much as other classics of SF did. I can't tell the exact reason for this. But I think it has something to do with the fact that the author tries to combine so many elements in one book. At first, there is a mystic element, a sacred mountain, which brings the reader back to the ancient past. Then this mountain is the present scene for the main plo...more

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Sep 23, 2012 Carlos Scheidegger rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is classic Arthur Clarke in a man-vs-universe story. No phenomenal characters or plot twists; the focus here is on humanity building a big honking space elevator. It doesn't get a full 5 stars from me mostly because Clarke can write Rendevous with Rama, and this isn't it.

Still, Clarke is most comfortable writing this type of book, and the execution is great. I am reminded of Richard Feynman's famous quote: "It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, [...], all this co...more

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Jul 15, 2011 Magpie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Strange. I have finished the book, and while I am still not sure what the main conflict is, I quite enjoyed it. It starts two thousand years ago, spends most of its time about five hundred years from now, and ends two thousand years in the future.

The Fountains of Paradise is a true science fiction book -- heavy on the science, as one might expect from an Arthur C. Clarke book. The reality he has made in the book now weighs heavily on my dreams for the future. The ideas described herein seem like...more

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Feb 28, 2009 Mike rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This is one of my favorite books and I come back to it yearly. I love new technologies and when I read about one that is years in advance of it's time, I get a feeling. I don't know when anyone is going to build a space elevator. The best thing about this story is it is about more than just the Sci-Fi. It's a great story.

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Mar 27, 2010 holy_fire rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: any who likes hard scifi

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two words: space elevator....

short plot description: in the not so far future a very determined engineer wants to build Earth's first space elevator on the site were about 2000 years earlier a king build another marvel of engineering but has to overcome many obstacles, both scientific and political...

my thoughts: Clarke at his best. Science is sound as always but also presented in a non-boring fashion, the subplot regarding the building of the palace 2000 years early is interesting, the characte...more

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Feb 26, 2009 Patrice rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Don't you just love Arthur C. Clarke? I certainly do.

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Apr 04, 2012 Glenn Myers rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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All Arthur C Clarke's books have the same underlying theme (though in some books it is underlying more deeply than others). The theme is 'Science, not religion, is the true locus for transcendence and wonder'. This theme is explicit in The Fountains of Paradise when a great mechanical elevator to the stars supplants an ancient religious stronghold and one chapter ends with this memorable summary of the religious point of view: 'the billions of words of pious gibberish with which apparently intel...more

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Sep 03, 2012 Tuan Ho rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Great setup and middle, but disappointing ending!

The previous book of Clarke's I read was The City and the Stars which had an amazing ending that surpassed all possible expectations that I had.

This, on the other hand just became a fairly standard race-against-time scenario that has been done to death a million times.

It's a shame because the concept of an elevator to space is pretty mind-bogglingly awesome and the way Clarke writes -- it all seems so very possible, but in the end, this concept do...more

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Apr 08, 2011 Andreas rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A classic from one of the great masters. The book tells the story of the construction of a space elevator on an island closely based on Sri Lanka. The author also took a bit of license and moved it to the equator in order to make things actually work.

While one might think that the story is only about the technical aspects, it delves much deeper into the spiritual past and future of bridge building. For what is a space elevator if not a bridge to the stars? Clarke skillfully blends the past and t...more

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Arthur C. Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.

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