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Title: The fountains of paradise
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Original copyright year: 1979
Genre: science fiction
Book price (of scanned edition): unknown
Comments: to my knowledge, this is the only available e-text of this book
Source: scanned and OCR-read from a hardback edition with Xerox TextBridge Pro 9.0, proofread in MS Word 2000.
Date of e-text: August 1, 1999
Prepared by: Anada Sucka

Anticopyright 1999. All rights reversed.

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THE FOUNTAINS OF PARADISE

by

Arthur C. Clarke

To the still unfading memory of
LESLIE EKANAYAKE (13 JuIy 1947 - 4 July 1977)
only perfect friend of a lifetime, in whom were uniquely combined Loyalty, Intelligence and Compassion.
When your radiant and loving spirit vanished from this world, the light went out of many lives.
NIRVANA PRAPTO BHUYAT

Politics and religion are obsolete; the time has come for science and spirituality.
Sri Jawaharlal Nehru, to the Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science, Colombo, 15 October 1962.

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