From: jdnicoll@panix.com   
      
   In article <756.105T1461T6043925ashw@lr.net>, Ash Wyllie  wrote:   
   >rocketech opined   
   >   
   >>I assume that you have read "The Fountains of Paradise" by Arthur C.   
   >>Clarke. It is difficult for me to imagine another, different novel   
   >>about a space elevator. It has all been said, or has it? Best of luck.   
   >   
   >There is also /The Web Between Worlds/ by Charles Sheffield. It came out at   
   >about the same time as the Clarke book.   
      
   	And as an example of Sheffield's Curse, was so similar to Clarke's   
   that Clarke felt he had to write an introduction explaining that this was,   
   in fact, a complete coincidence.   
      
   	Just changing the setting for the base of the tower should   
   have a huge effect on the plot: basing the tower in Equador, for   
   example, would be very different from putting it in Kenya or on   
   a sea-platform south of Singapore.   
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