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Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, Warner Books ed. --, Available .
Book, 2001
Current format, Book, 2001, Warner Books ed. --, Available . Offered in 0 more formats
This Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel is reissued in this trade paperback edition. Vannemar Morgan's dream of linking Earth with the stars requires a 24,000-mile-high space elevator. But first he must solve a million technical, political, and economic problems while allaying the wrath of God. Includes a new introduction by the author. The lives of Van Morgan, an adventurous engineer of the twenty-second century, and Kalidasa, an obsessive tyrant of the second century, are brought together in a drama that takes place on an alluring island in the Indian Ocean, in a new editin of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. Reprint.
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