Web Between the World Author:Charles Sheffield Rob Merlyn was the best enineer who had ever lived. That was why Darius Regulo, "The King of Space", had to have Rob for the most spectacular construction project in the history of the human race--even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to Darius's power... — Thus begins a breakthrough novel, written by the President of the American Astron... more »autical Society about an idea whose time has come: a shimmering bridge between earth and space, a veritable beanstalk that mankind will climb to the stars!
Sound like fantasy? The concept has been in the literature of physics for nearly two decades, but only a writer with a scientific background of a Sheffield or a Clarke could bring the idea to life.« less