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赤道上を地球の自転と同じ速さで動き、そのため同じ地点の上に永遠に止まっている同期衛星や宇宙ステーション。天体力学の法則によって物体が空に静止していられるものなら、そこからケーブルを地上にたらし、地球と宇宙空間とを結ぶエレベーターができないものだろうか?4万キロにおよぶ〈宇宙エレベーター〉―この壮大な夢を胸に、地球建設公社の技術部長ヴァニーヴァー・モーガンは、赤道上に浮かぶ美しい島国、タブロバニーへとやってきたのだが…。自らの夢の実現に向かって突き進む天才科学者の姿を見事に描く、巨匠クラークのヒューゴー賞、ネビュラ賞受賞作!
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Originally The Fountains of Paradise was intended to be Arthur C. Clarke's last novel, before the author came out of "retirement" to pen 2010: Odyssey Two. It is also one of his best, and being set in a fictionalised version of Clarke's adopted home of Sri Lanka, one of his most personal. The story is based around the fantastical yet scientifically supportable idea of a "Space Elevator", a "tower" from the earth to geo-stationary orbit, 23 000 miles "high". The purpose is to make access to space routine, safe and cheap, and the 22nd century-set novel essentially follows Vannevar Morgan in his quest to complete this monumental project.
There are grand set-pieces worthy of the best adventure story, a generous scattering of fascinating speculations and observations and, of course, Clarke's famous eye for the epic vistas inherent in large-scale science fiction:
Slowly his eyes adapted, and in the depths of the mirror a faint red glow began to burn, and spread, and consume the stars. It grew brighter and brighter and flowed beyond the limits of the mirror; now he could see directly, for it extended halfway down the sky. A cage of light, with flickering, moving bars, was descending upon the earth.As much the novel of a poet as that of a scientist, The Fountains of Paradise makes striking use of the sometimes haunting history of Sri Lanka, a device echoed by Kathleen Ann Goonan in her Hawaiian set novel, The Bones of Time. Anyone seriously interested in great science fiction should really have both these books in their collection. --Gary S. Dalkin --This text refers to the ペーパーバック edition.
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