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Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Cover artist: Chris Moore
Language: English
Original language: English
Publisher: Gollancz
Categories: Novel and science fiction
Publisher series: SF Masterworks
Publication year: 1979
Original publication year: 2000
ISBN: 978-1-85798-721-8
Pages: 257
Has read?: No
Debut?: No

Table of contents

Foreword

I—THE PALACE

1. Kalidasa
2. Thc Engineer
3. The Fountains
4. Demon Rock
5. Through the Telescope
6. The Artist
7. The God-King's Palace
8. Malgara
9. Filament
10. The Ultimate Bridge
11. The Silent Princess

II—THE TEMPLE

12. Starglider
13. Shadow at Dawn
14. The Education of Starglider
15. Bodhidharma
16. Conversations with Starglider
17. Parakarma
18. The Golden Butterflies
19. By the Shores of Lake Saladin
20. The Bridge that Danced
21. Judgement

III—THE BELL

22. Apostate
23. Moondozer
24. The Finger of God
25. Orbital Roulette
26. The Night Before Vesak
27. Ashoka Station
28. The First Lowering
29. Final Approach
30. The Legions of the King
31. Exodus

IV—THE TOWER

32. Space Express
33. CORA
34. Vertigo
35. Starglider Plus Eighty
36. The Cruel Sky
37. The Billion-Ton Diamond

V—ASCENSION

38. A Place of Silent Storms
39. The Wounded Sun
40. The End of the Line
41. Meteor
42. Death in Orbit
43. Fail-Safe
44. A Cave in the Sky
45. The Man for the Job
46. Spider
47. Beyond the Aurora
48. Night at the Villa
49. A Bumpy Ride
50. The Falling Fireflies
51. On the Porch
52. The Other Passenger
53. Fade-out
54. Theory of Relativity
55. Hard Dock
56. View from the Balcony
57. The Last Dawn
58. Epilogue: Kalidasa's Triumph

Afterword: Sources and Acknowledgments