The novel “The Fountains of Paradise” by Arthur C. Clarke was published for the first time in 1979. It won the Hugo and Nebula awards for the best novel of the year.

Vannevar Morgan is an engineer who has designed extraordinary works and now his new dream is to direct the construction of a space elevator. It would be an incredibly complex work that would connect the surface of the Earth to a geostationary orbit about 36,000 km (about 22,300 miles) high. In a future in which part of the solar system has been colonized and many spaceships depart and arrive on Earth, a space elevator would greatly reduce the cost of transportation of people and cargo to orbit.