Happy Back to Work Tomorrow Day!

Hope you all enjoyed your break, cos it's over tonight. Make the most of the rest of today.

Arthur C Clarke's Fountains of Paradise has been read and enjoyed recently. In fact, anything of Clarke's that I've read has been enjoyable and intriguingly prescient. Perhaps the existence of Arthur C Clarke is proof of time travel, as he seems to be able to uncannily make realistic future predictions in his science fiction. Perhaps his use of science helps....?

Anyway, this book's about an engineer who wants to build a space elevator after feeling a little underwhelmed by the completion of a bridge over the Gibraltar Straits. Perhaps the fact that somebody else got their name on the bridge aggrieved him? So the book follows the story of the construction of the space elevator and the problems encountered during the construction. Well in fairness, a novel without problems would be quite short.

If you like sci-fi, you should read Arthur Clarke.

And I hope I'm able to read in to the future like Arthur C Clarke, by wishing you a Happy New Year.