Arthur C. Clarke, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Arthur C. Clarke, “The Fountains of Paradise”, 1978. This book consists of six (6) sections of two-hundred ninety-seven (297) pages. The “table of contents” of the book is shown BELOW.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| Part #1. THE PALACE. | |
| 1 | “Kalidasa”. |
| 2 | “The Engineer”. |
| 3 | “The Fountains”. |
| 4 | “Demon Rock”. |
| 5 | “Through the Telescope”. |
| 6 | “The Artist”. |
| 7 | “The God-King’s Palace”. |
| 8 | “Malgara”. |
| 9 | “Filament”. |
| 10 | “The Ultimate Bridge”. |
| 11 | “The Silent Princess”. |
| Part #2. THE TEMPLE. | |
| 12 | “Starglider”. |
| 13 | “Shadow at Dawn”. |
| 14 | “The Education of Starglider”. |
| 15 | “Bodhidharma”. |
| 16 | “Conversations with Starglider”. |
| 17 | “Parakarma”. |
| 18 | “The Golden Butterflies “. |
| 19 | “By the Shores of Lake Saladia”. |
| 20 | “The Bridge that Danced”. |
| 21 | “Judgment”. |
| Part #3. THE BELL. | |
| 22 | “Apostate”. |
| 23 | “Moondozer”. |
| 24 | “The Finger of God”. |
| 25 | “Orbital Roulette”. |
| 26 | “The Night before Vesak”. |
| 27 | “Ashoka Station”. |
| 28 | “The First Lowering”. |
| 29 | “Final Approach”. |
| 30 | “The Legions of the King”. |
| 31 | “Exodus”. |
| Part #4. THE TOWER. | |
| 32 | “Space Express”. |
| 33 | “CORA”. |
| 34 | “Vertigo”. |
| 35 | “Starglider Plus Eighty”. |
| 36 | “The Cruel Sky”. |
| 37 | “The Billion-Ton Diamond”. |
| Part #5. ASCENSION. | |
| 38 | “A Place of Silent Storms”. |
| 39 | “The Wounded Sun”. |
| 40 | “The End of the Line”. |
| 41 | “Meteor”. |
| 42 | “Death in Orbit”. |
| 43 | “Fail-safe”. |
| 44 | “A Cave in the Sky”. |
| 45 | “The Man for the Job”. |
| 46 | “Spider”. |
| 47 | “Beyond the Aurora”. |
| 48 | “Night at the Villa”. |
| 49 | “A Bumpy Ride”. |
| 50 | “The Falling Fireflies”. |
| 51 | “On the Porch”. |
| 52 | “The Other Passenger”. |
| 53 | “Fade-out”. |
| 54 | “Theory of Relativity”. |
| 55 | “Hard Dock”. |
| 56 | “View from the Balcony”. |
| 57 | “The Last Dawn”. |
| Part #6. EPILOGUE. |
Here I presented: Arthur C. Clarke, “The Fountains of Paradise”, 1978.
SUMMARY.
Vannevar Morgan is the protagonist of the story. An Orbital Tower is to stretch from the Earth’s equator to a satellite that is in geostationary orbit would greatly reduce the cost of sending people and supplies into space. The Orbital Tower is to be constructed on the Sacred Mountain of “Sri Kanda” in Sri Lanka.
Arthur C. Clarke is known for his invention of “artificial satellites” using geostationary orbit. The book consists excellent technical discussion of The Orbital Tower.
