The Fountains of Paradise
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The Fountains of Paradise
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
|---|---|
| Published | 1979 |
| Pages | 260 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Arthur C. Clarke’s Hugo- and Nebula-winning novel of an engineer building a space elevator anchored to a mountain on a lightly fictionalised Sri Lanka, who must move a two-thousand-year-old monastery to do it — the closest thing science fiction has to a megaproject novel, with materials, financing, politics and the religious claim on a site treated as one engineering problem. |
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in Sci-fi — Classics, A tier, under Clarke’s selected works, noting he was an early proponent of space elevators.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Arthur C. Clarke — the author.
- Engineering — the book’s real subject: one structure, and everything it takes to get it built.
- Rendezvous with Rama — the other late-Clarke title on the list.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
- a16z — the firm whose infra team curates the list.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.