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"The novel focuses primarily on a project known as the Orbital Tower proposed by the main character, Vannevar Morgan. The main story is framed by two other stories. The first one tells of King Kalidasa (fictionalized King Kashyapa I of Sri Lanka), living thousands of years before Morgan is born...

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Main Author: Clarke, Arthur C. (Arthur Charles), 1917-2008 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Gollancz, 1979.
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Visionary architecture > Fiction.
Aerospace engineering > Fiction.
Elevators > Design and construction > Fiction.
Mountains > Religious aspects > Fiction.
Buddhist monks > Sri Lanka > Fiction.
Engineers > Fiction.
Human-alien encounters > Fiction.
Sri Lanka > Fiction.
Fiction in English.
Science fiction.
Novels.

Cushing: Science Fiction (Does not check out)

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Call Number: PR6005.L36 F68 1979
 
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