#198 Down to the wire: The Fountains of Paradise (1979) by Arthur C. Clarke

What is 36,000 kilometres long, made of a super-strong material that doesn't exist yet, and replaces rocket launches? It can only be a space elevator, a speculative mega-engineering project that has been a fixture of science fiction since 1979. That was the year that SF superstar Arthur C. Clarke popularised the concept with his novel The Fountains of Paradise.  Get in touch with a text message! (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1080812/fa...) For more classic SF reviews and discussion, visit andyjohnson.xyz (http://www.andyjohnson.xyz/) . To get free weekly classic SF updates, sign up here (https://classicsfwithandyjohnson.eo.p...) .