NP Mars Trilogy

[tbeshear]

Clarke introduced the idea of the space elevator in The Fountains of Paradise. A physically possible but loony idea. There's no way an Al-Qaeda type group, let along antagonistic nations, would let such a device exist for long. Which was kinda the point in Red Mars.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Cape 
  To: kelber at mindspring.com ; pynchon-l 
  Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 7:42 PM
  Subject: Re: NP Mars Trilogy


  There's a space elevator in Arthur C Clarke's 3001: A Space Odyssey, too. 
  Dammit where's my hovercar? I thought warp drives were meant to be invented by now! I'm sad that I'm not going to be able to fulfill my space explorer ambitions before my time is up. 


  2009/9/19 <kelber at mindspring.com>

    I read Red Mars.  It was entertaining enough, but not all that good, in retrospect.  I liked it more when I thought that the concept of a "space elevator" was original to the book. 
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