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Title: Fountains of Paradise, The by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0-446-67794-9 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: When I knew that the book was all about the construction of a 36000km high tower, I look scornfully at it. But when I started to read the strong and plausible scientific background the story has, I started to consider Clarke not only the greatest science fiction writer ever, but also one of the greatest visionaries of our time.
I only took one star out of my rate because the story developed around it is not as good as in Rendezvous with Rama and Space Odyssey, but this Clarke's vision of future compensates it by far and makes the book worthwile anyway.
Rating: 5
Summary: May yet be the most important book of the 20th Century
Comment: Hugo & Nebula Awards for Best Novel.
Nikola Tesla has been called the man who invented the 20th century. I'm hoping that Clarke will be remembered as the man who invented the 21st. As I type this there is a TV in the room, connected to a box, in turn connected to a dish on the roof, that is pointed to a satellite over 42,000 km away in what is called a Clarke Orbit, after the astronomer who realized it would be a useful place for a communications satellite to be, Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
So what does that have to do with this novel? In this book Clarke talks about a bridge, a tether that connects the ground to Clarke orbit. A vertical railroad, allowing for a more economical method for reaching Earth-orbit than riding on a Space Shuttle with the power of sixty-five locomotives.
As in real life, the political problems far outweigh the technical ones, and those who say that Clarke is weak in characterization have not read the same book I did.
Do the math, we can build a tether, we should build it. The only thing wrong with this book is that it hasn't happened, yet.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of Arthur Clarke's finest novels.
Comment: In the two decades since THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE was written, the idea of an 'elevator' into space has permeated the science fiction world completely, seen as merely a fact of things to come. In part, I believe it is because Arthur C. Clarke made such an excellent case for it in this novel which builds one up 36000 km (24,000 miles)--from Sri Lanka to geostationary orbit. It combines two of the authors most popular themes, technological evolution & human quintessential development, with sparse prose and moving directness. At the time of it's original publication, it was announced to be the author's last novel, which happily is one of Clarke's predictions which did not come true! Very Highly Recommended.
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Title: The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth-to-Space Transportation System by Bradley C. Edwards, Eric A. Westling ISBN: 0972604502 Publisher: Bradley C. Edwards & Eric A. Westling Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0345322401 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: City and the Stars/ Sands of Mars by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0446677965 Publisher: Aspect Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0345347951 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 12 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke ISBN: 0553287893 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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