Buy this book on-line CLARKE**, ARTHUR C: : THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISELONDON.GOLLANCZ,1979. ISBN 0575025204.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE. No owner inscrptn but a neat,blue ink birthday gift presentation inscrptn to ffe and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around vibrant, strong colour pictorial artwork by Terry Oakes,illustrated dw/dj with green+bue lettering to front panel and spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf- wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Majority of light, negligible creasing restricted to top edges of dw/dj,some inevitable but minor, superficial scoring/indentations to both panels - but without penetration or affecting the bds beneath.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean - very faint and barely discernible minimal,sporadic foxing to fore-edges; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound,text body foxing-free - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps - aforementioned inscrptn excepted.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9- 255pp [paginated] includes contents list/ table,a foreword,I-V parts comprising 58 chapters in total,an afterword comprising sources and acknowledgements,plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,a dedication,and an epigram.
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It is the year 2142 A.D.,and the brilliant visionary engineer Vannevar Morgan has evolved a method of building a gigantic 'Space Elevator' for transporting men and materials to a point outside the earth's atmosphere,thus marking the true beginning of Man's interplanetary civilization.But before this awe-inspiring conception can become reality a major obstacle has to be faced.For there is only one point on earth suitable for the launching site - the peak of a sacred mountain which is jealously guarded by the monks who have inhabited it since time immemorial.
How their resistance is overcome,and what happens when Morgan's Elevator begins to tower into the sky,forms the basis of a dramatic tale in which scientific knowledge and soaring imagination both play their part.
Taprobane,the setting of the novel,is a thin disguise for Arthur Clarke's beloved Sri Lanka,and the background is sketched in with vivid life and colour.
Clarke himself regards this as his best novel - a judgement in which we heartily concur.He has never written anything finer.Winner of the 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo awards for best sci-fi novel.
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