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One of the SF Masterworks Gollancz series by Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008), who was the author of the scientific paper that established the principle of communications satellites and who collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on 2001. This delightfully written and exciting novel is set in the 22nd century. Visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one which will revolutionise the future of humankind in space: a Space Elevator, 36,000km high, anchored to an equatorial island on the Indian Ocean. The novel was the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel. 256 page paperback facsimile reprint of the 1979 original.