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"The Fountains of Paradise" Author: [UK] Arthur Clarke Publisher: Sichuan Science and Technology Press
"The Fountains of Paradise" Author: [UK] Arthur Clarke Publisher: Sichuan Science and Technology Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Two thousand years ago, a bloody palace coup took place in Taprobani, an island country near the equator, and the tyrant Kalidasa took advantage of it to come to power. He was not satisfied with the joys of the world, and he wanted to build a paradise on the top of a mountain to challenge the gods, so the "Fountain of Paradise" was born.
Two thousand years later, the king and the empire have long since turned to dust, and mankind has entered the space age. In order to enter space quickly and conveniently, engineer Morgan chose to build an elevator to heaven at the site of the "Fountain of Heaven", continuing the unfinished ambition of his predecessors. In order to achieve his goal, he did not hesitate to face the challenges of secular public opinion, religious monks and endless technical difficulties.
Will the “Fountain of Paradise” finally be built?
This is a great hymn to the human spirit and a precious spiritual treasure of the "Golden Age of Science Fiction".
About the Author · · · · · ·
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)
British science fiction writer, known as one of the "three giants of world science fiction" along with Asimov and Heinlein. He created more than 100 works in his lifetime, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and have won the Nebula Award, Hugo Award and other top science fiction awards. His representative works include "Childhood's End", "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Rendezvous with Rama" (double award work) and "The Fountains of Paradise" (double award work) and other masterpieces in the history of science fiction. In 1986, he won the Grand Master Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Most of Clarke's works are "hard science fiction" with a broad vision, a solid scientific foundation, and full of humanistic care and exploration of the ultimate meaning of human civilization. As early as 1945, Clarke proposed the idea of using synchronous satellites to achieve global communications. Due to his great contribution, the International Astronomical Union named the synchronous satellite orbit above the equator the "Clarker Orbit".
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