The Fountains of Paradise
by Clarke, Arthur C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151327734
- ISBN 13
- 9780151327737
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. 0151327734 . No signatures. Some fading to upper margins of boards. A few spots of foxing. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First US edition. xii, [2], 261, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue papaerd boads with dark blue cloth spine. Silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 213 x 137mm. This novel was the winner of the 1979 Nebula and 1980 Hugo awards in the Novel category. "Sri Kanda, the Sacred Mountain rising majestically above the equatorial island of Taprobane, bears silent witness to the hazardous lives of two obsessed men." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
Synopsis
The Fountains of Paradise is a Hugo and Nebula Award winning 1979 novel by Arthur C. Clarke. Set in the 22nd century, it describes the construction of a space elevator. This "orbital tower" is a giant structure rising from the ground and linking with a satellite in geostationary at the height of approximately 36,000 kilometers (approx. 22,300 miles). Such a structure would be used to raise payloads to orbit without having to use rockets, making it much more cost-effective.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22587
- Title
- The Fountains of Paradise
- Author
- Clarke, Arthur C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151327734
- ISBN 13
- 9780151327737
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1979)
- Keywords
- 0151327734
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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