Re: [OT] Beanstalk anyone?

I'll chip on this series again. It's a political/social/ecological 
story. I'd consider Mars to be the main character, and I will warn that 
long odes to the martian landcsape abound, however it worked for me.

A lot of trilogies wrap up in an unsatifying manner. This series ends 
very well. Then the 4th book, The Martians adds a very elegant coda to 
the series. It

Brian Burger wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Brian Bilderback begged to be Narn'd by writing:
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>>Tomb wrote:
>>Would you say he didn't know jack about beanstalks? 
>>
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>***whack***whack... etc... :>
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>>>2300AD (Traveller 2300): They had beanstalks and also covered the
impact
>>>(literally) of one that is unleashed on the planet it services.
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>>I'm assuming you meant of the tether comes loose from it's space end. 
I'm 
>>curious to see a story/scenario where it comes detached at the earth
end of 
>>the tether - talk about an olympic hammer throw. ;-)
>>
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>See Kim Stanley Robinson's Red/Green/Blue Mars trilogy. Incredible
books,
>and there's a space elevator collapse in either the first or second
book.
>The thing is so long it wraps right around Mars (at least once,
possibly
>twice...). One of hte characters notes that Mars now as a big black
line
>marking the equator, just like he thought Earth had from looking at the
>globe as a little kid!
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>Seeing as we're in a book-recommending mood this week, do read Red
>Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars. No combat worth mentioning, just lots of
people
>stuff mixed with a healthy dose of cool tech stuff. Excellent books.
>
>Brian - yh728@victoria.tc.ca -
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