Pillar to the Sky Audiobook (Free)
- Grover Gardner
- 15 h 33 min
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2014-02-11
Summary:
A towering epic torank with Douglas Preston’s Blasphemy and Michael Crichton’s Victim
Pandemic drought, skyrocketing oil prices, dwindling energysupplies, and wars of water scarcity threaten the earth. Just four people canprevent global chaos.
Gary Morgan-a amazing renegade scientist pilloried bythe scientific community for his belief in a space elevator: a pillar to thesky, which he believes will make space airline flight fast, simple, and affordable.
Eva Morgan-a brilliant and beautiful scientist of about Pillar towards the Sky Ukranian descent,she’s had a lifelong obsession to build a pillar towards the sky, a vertiginoustower that could mine the energy of sunlight and supply humanity with cheap,limitless energy forever.
Gunther Rothenberg-the ancient but revered rocket scientistwho labored at Peenemünde with von Braun to generate the initial rockets andcontinued to build those of today. A star, he offers mentored Gary and Evafor two decades, nurturing and stimulating their transcendent eyesight.
Franklin Smith-the eccentric Silicon Valley billionaire whowill champion their cause, income war with Congress and authorities bureaucracy,& most important, finance their herculean undertaking.
This journey to the stars will not be easy; it’ll be atumultuous struggle filled with violence and heroism, love and death,spellbinding beauty and heartbreaking betrayal. The stakes could not end up being higher.Humanity’s salvation will hang in the balance.
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