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The Web Between The Worlds (1979)

por Charles Sheffield

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WHAT SF SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT. -- KliattRob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why The King of Space had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever -- even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power...Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President of the American Astronautical Society, about an idea whose time has come: a shimmering bridge between Earth and space that mankind will climb to the stars Sound like fantasy? The concept has been in the literature of physics for over three decades, but only a writer with the scientific background of a Sheffield or a Clarke could bring the idea to life.… (mais)
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    The Fountains of Paradise por Arthur C. Clarke (lorax)
    lorax: The two classic space elevator novels, written nearly simultaneously. Clarke's is a better book, but they're both good engineering SF, and if you like space elevators you definitely should read them both.
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Rob Merlin, considerado el mejor ingeniero del mundo, es requerido por Régulo, el hombre más poderoso del Sistema Solar para llevar a cabo su gran proyecto: un puente que comunique la superficie de la Tierra con el espacio. Pero Régulo sabe que Merlin es una amenaza para él y se verá obligado a tejer una red para envolver sus actos mientras Merlin se encarga de tejer una telaraña entre los mundos.
  Natt90 | Feb 13, 2023 |
This hard-science fiction takes a look at a premise that's been around for decades -- the notion of a "sky hook" (here called "the beanstalk") that could lift cargo and passengers to gravity-free launch points in near-Earth orbits.

The technology is fascinating and explained well enough to almost be comprehensible to a non-scientist, but Sheffield falls down (you should excuse the pun) on the fictional side of the equation. He pads the tech effort with a mystery subplot and a sort-of-but-not-quite love-ish story. Most of the big reveals are no surprise to the observant reader; there are some elements that simply don't make a lot of sense, and there are a couple of plot elements that are ... well, they're just left hanging there. Kind of like the beanstalk. ( )
  LyndaInOregon | Dec 14, 2018 |
As Charles Fort might have said, “It’s space elevator time when it’s space elevator time.” And 1979 was space elevator time in science fiction. Besides this novel, Arthur C. Clarke’s The Fountains of Paradise was published that year. Clarke’s introduction to this novel makes it clear Sheffield came up with the idea independently.

There’s plenty of what science fiction critic John J. Pierce called “industrial science fiction” here. It includes not only our hero Rob Merlyn, an engineer who specializes in building massive bridges on Earth, discusseing the project with his client Darius Regula, the Rocket King of the solar system, but a whole chapter describing the tethering of the space elevator.

But, since this is Sheffield, there’s a whole other story going on besides building that elevator. The novel starts out with the murder of Rob’s parents, the downing of an airliner by a bomb, and Rob being birthed on an Antarctica ice sheet. To that, add a bit of spacebound Gothic with Darius’ watery habitat Atlantis with a squid in space (long before Stephen Baxter did it) and a sinister scientist Morel, reports of “goblins”, and Rob’s attraction to Darius’ assistant Cornelia – complicated by her amnesiac, drug addict mother. Throw in some set pieces like a trip to Way Down, a restaurant far below the surface of Earth, and the asteroid mining accident that made Darius a rich – but very photophobic – man, and you have a suspenseful story full of hard science with a bit of the feeling of Alfred Bester and Charles Harness about it.

Take note, this is the first version of the novel. Sheffield expanded it later in 1989 and 2001. ( )
  RandyStafford | Oct 6, 2013 |
This is one of Sheffields earlier novels, but the signs of how good a writer he was, and how much better he was to become, are all present in this volume. Unfortunately, his book came out the same year that a similar volume dealing with the same concept was published. Unfortunate because the name on the cover was Arthur C. Clarke, famed author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and therefore familiar to millions who had little if any interest in hard science fiction.
The Fountains of Paradise was Clarke's depiction of the building of a space elevator, or beanstalk. This is Sheffields, and I enjoyed it very much. Like Clarke's, there is an inescapable amount of science going on, and I got rather lost in both amongst the technical stuff. But Sheffield, to my mind, had a much more interesting story on which to hang the sky bridge: one involving industrial espionage, murder, life extension, drug addiction, and one mans unending, unswerving, naked lust for power.
A very good read indeed. ( )
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WHAT SF SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT. -- KliattRob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why The King of Space had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever -- even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power...Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President of the American Astronautical Society, about an idea whose time has come: a shimmering bridge between Earth and space that mankind will climb to the stars Sound like fantasy? The concept has been in the literature of physics for over three decades, but only a writer with the scientific background of a Sheffield or a Clarke could bring the idea to life.

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