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标 题: The Fountains of Paradise (mit bbs)
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标 题: The Fountains of Paradise by A. C. Clarke
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Title: The fountains of paradise
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Original copyright year: 1979
Genre: science fiction
Book price (of scanned edition): unknown
Comments: to my knowledge, this is the only available e-text
of this book
Source: scanned and OCR-read from a hardback edition with
Xerox TextBridge Pro 9.0, proofread in MS Word 2000.
Dateof e-text: August 1, 1999
Prepared by: Anada Sucka
Anticopyright 1999. All rights reversed.
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THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE
by
Arthur C. Clarke
To the still unfading memory of
LESLIE EKANAYAKE (13 JuIy 1947 - 4 July 1977)
only perfect friend of a lifetime, in whom were uniquely
combined Loyalty, Intelligence and Compassion.
When your radiant and loving spirit vanished from this
world, the light went out of many lives.
NIRVANA PRAPTO BHUYAT
Politics and religion are obsolete; the time has come for
science and spirituality.
Sri Jawaharlal Nehru, to the Ceylon Association for the
Advancement of Science, Colombo, 15 October 1962.
Contents
Foreword
I-THE PALACE
1. Kalidasa
2. Thc Engineer
3. The Fountains
4. Demon Rock
5. Through the Telescope
6. The Artist
7. The God-King's Palace
8. Malgara
9. Filament
10. The Ultimate Bridge
11. The Silent Princess
II-THE TEMPLE
12. Starglider
13. Shadow t Dawn
14. The Education of Starglider
15. Bodhidharma
16. Conversations with Starglider
17. Parakarma
18. The Golden Butterflies
19. By the Shores of Lake Saladin
20. The Bridge that Danced
21. Judgement
III-THE BELL
22. Apostate
23. Moondozer
24. The Finger of God
25. Orbital Roulette
26. The Night Before Vesak
27. Ashoka Station
28. The First Lowering
29. Final Approach
30. The Legions of the King
31. Exodus
IV-THE TOWER
32. Space Express
33. CORA
34. Vertigo
35. Starglider Plus Eighty
36. The Cruel Sky
37. The Billion-Ton Diamond
V-ASCENSION
38. A Place of Silent Storms
39. The Wounded Sun
40. The End of the Line
41. Meteor
42. Death in Orbit
43. Fail-Safe
44. A Cave in the Sky
45. The Man for the Job
46. Spider
47. Beyond the Aurora
48. Night at the Villa
49. A Bumpy Ride
50. The Falling Fireflies
51. On the Porch
52. The Other Passenger
53. Fade-out
54. Theory of Relativity
55. Hard Dock
56. View from the Balcony
57. The Last Dawn
8. Epilogue: Kalidasa's Triumph
Afterword: Sources and Acknowledgments
Foreword
"From Paradise to Taprobane is forty leagues; there may
be heard the sound of the Fountains of Paradise."
Traditional: reported by Friar Marignolli (A.D. 1335)
The country I have called Taprobane does not quite
exist, but is about ninety percent congruent with the island
of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Though the Afterword will make
clear what locations, events and personalities are based on
fact, the reader will not go far wrong in assuming that the
more unlikely the story, the closer it is to reality.
The name "Taprobane" is now usually spoken to rhyme with
"plan", but the correct classical pronunciation is
"Tap-ROB-a-nee"
-as Milton, of course, well knew:
"From India and the golden Chersoness
And utmost Indian Isle Taprobane...
(Paradise Regained, Book IV)
--
... In 2345, on the 10th anniversary of the Shivan attack
on Ross 128, the Vasudan emperor Khonsu II addressed the
newly formed GTVA General Assembly. The emperor inaugurated
an ambiguous and unprecedented joint endeavor: the GTVA
Colossus...
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