The Web Between the Worlds

-WHAT SF SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT.- - Kliatt

Rob Merlin was the best engineer who had ever lived. That was why "The King of Space" had to have him for the most spectacular construction project ever-even though Rob was a potentially fatal threat to his power ...

Thus begins a breakthrough novel by the former President of the American Astronautical Society, about an idea whose time has come: a shimmering bridge between Earth and space that mankind will climb to the stars!

Sound like fantasy? The concept has been in the literature of physics for over three decades, but only a writer with the scientific background of a Sheffield or a Clarke could bring the idea to life.* 

*See page ii of this volume for a fascinating note from Arthur C Clarke on who was "first to press" with the notion of a "bridge to space."

"Opening a Sheffield book is like switching on a mind link."
-Dr. Robert L. Forward

"Charles Sheffield is one of the very best hard science fiction
writers in the world." -Kim Stanley Robinson

"Sheffield is a master ... the Asimov or Clarke of the future"
-Noumenon

"A treat for readers who like their science fiction loaded with
intelligent scientific extrapolation." -Chicago Sun-Times

Cover art by Bob Eggleton

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, February 2001

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ISBN: 0-671-31973-6

Copyright (c) 1979 by Charles Sheffield.
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