Also by Jim Cline:
- Three Species on Lava World
- Bouncing High Above the World
- Going Past The Town Prison
- The Ark of 1984's Future
- Building Up
- Masters of the Trading Game
- The Torus City Ice Shields Returning Home
- A potential application of General Systems theory: KESTS, a unique transportation technology concept & implications (1994)
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It's Down To Earth
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Published: June 17, 2009
Words: 72,932 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452401164
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The seven billion people of the Clarke Belt Cities are desperately seeking ways to return to their homes on the ground, after being stranded in GEO by the cutting down of their centrifugally-supported space escallator by which they had temporarily migrated to cities built up there, to live in while the Earth's ecosystem was being restored to viability again. Now, how can they get back down?Tags
sci fi, geo access, solar power satellites, total recycling systems, high spaceports, electrically powered space access, space elevator, kinetically supported structureAvailable ebook reading formats
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