Liftport: Opening Space to Everyone

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Liftport: Opening Space to Everyone

This book is organised into two main sections, the first is non-fiction and covers the basic technical, financial, legal, social and political requirements of the system. The second section is composed of several science fiction stories outlining the possibilities and implications of Space Elevator construction.

Type:	Anthology
Editor:	Bill Fawcett, Michael Laine, Tom Nugent Jr.
Published:	2006
Genre:
Tags:	Publication, Book, Space Elevator, Essay, Speculative Engineering, Want to Read
Library:	Titles L (Library Box Cross Ref)
Box:	F1
ISFDB:	title entry, cover gallery
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Table of Contents

   17 • The Space Elevator: 'Thought Experiment', or Key to the Universe? • (1981) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke [as by Sir Arthur C. Clarke]
   32 • Charles Sheffield and The Web Between the Worlds • essay by Kim Stanley Robinson
   36 • How to Build a Beanstalk • (1979) • essay by Charles Sheffield
   49 • Tribute • short story by Todd McCaffrey
   68 • The Hermit of the Skies • short fiction by Paul Crilley and Mike Resnick
   82 • The Billion-Ton Diamond • short fiction by Arthur C. Clarke [as by Sir Arthur C. Clarke]
   91 • High Space • short story by John Helfers
   108 • Into the Black • short story by Janny Wurts
   135 • Basic Facts - An Email Exchange Between: Jody Lynn Nye and Michael Laine • interview of Michael Laine • interview by Jody Lynn Nye
   137 • Going Up? • short story by Jody Lynn Nye
   160 • The End of the Line • short fiction by Arthur C. Clarke [as by Sir Arthur C. Clarke]
   223 • The Rings of Earth • short fiction by William H. Keith, Jr. [as by William H. Keith]
   271 • Sociopolitical Issues: An Historical Overview of the Space Elevator Concept • essay by Monte Davis
   292 • Excerpt from Foundation's Triumph • short fiction by David Brin
   307 • Vertical Journey • short story by Kevin J. Anderson

Space Elevator

• Beanstalk
• Blue Remembered Earth
• How To Fix The Space Elevator (video)
• Liftport: Opening Space to Everyone
• Skyhook
• Space elevator
• Space elevator
• Space Elevators Do Too Stay Put (link)
• Space elevators in fiction
• Space fountain arch and skyhook combination
• Space Elevator
• Space Elevator (DMW)
• Space fountain arch and skyhook combination.png

Speculative Engineering

• Active structure
• Arcology
• Atomic Rockets
• Bernal sphere
• Clarke ring
• Dyson Bubble
• Liftport: Opening Space to Everyone
• Matrioshka brain
• McKendree colony
• Megastructures 03 - Launch Loops, Mass Drivers, and Space Fountains
• Niven ring
• O'Neill cylinder
• Ringworld (novel)
• Ringworld (structure)
• Space colony
• Space colony
• Space colony
• Space elevator
• Space fountain
• Space habitat
• Speculative engineering
• Stanford torus
• Von Neumann machine
• Active Structure
• Arcology
• Exploratory Engineering
• Megastructure (DMW)
• Space Colony
• Space Elevator
• Space Habitat
• Von Neumann Machine

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