Title: The fountains of paradise
Description: In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionize the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000 kilometers high, anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean.
Subjects: Fiction, Mountains, Elevators, Monks, Design and construction, Religious aspects of Mountains, Science Fiction, Hugo Award Winner, award:hugo_award=1980, award:hugo_award=novel, English Science fiction, Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, general, Large type books, award:nebula_award=novel, Fiction, religious