The Web Between the Worlds
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Jump to navigationJump to searchSheffield, Charles. The Web Between the Worlds. Ace, 1979. See Internet Speculative Fiction Database at following link for numerous reprints, plus award and translations.[1]
As in A. C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise (also 1979), features a space elevator whose construction in turn features a device called a Spider (for a machine/arachnoid association). The two novels were developed independently, on an idea "whose time has come."
Cf. and contrast Tower to the Sky.
RDE, finishing, 20Jun21