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Can you recommend SF books which contain space elevators?
by tmoullet 13y ago
Can you recommend SF books which contain space elevators?
- tjl 13y agoArthur C. Clarke's "The Fountains of Paradise" is about building a space elevator. It's probably one of the first science fiction books to include it. There's also Heinlein's "Friday" and Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars". Those are just the ones off the top of my head.
- geuis 13y agoFountains of Paradise, Red Mars, Blue Remembered Earth There's a lot but these are 3 off hand. FoP was the one that really popularized the idea. Red Mars and it's sequels have a small part about what can go wrong. BRE just uses it as it would really be used. A piece of generic ordinary transportation technology that people used to it don't think twice about.