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The fountains of paradise / by Arthur C. Clarke

In the 22nd century, an ambitious engineering project seeks to construct a 36,000-kilometre space elevator anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean. The structure is intended to revolutionise the future of human space travel.

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