A Tower for the Coming World
Maggie Clark
Clarkesworld
123
2016
ShortStory
5,335 words
Recommended by 1 award/anthology source
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The destruction of the new Space Elevator puts human expansion into space at risk.
Literary SFFatherhoodPhilosophical
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Art And CreationColonialismDeep SpaceElegiacSacrificeContemplativeNear FutureLyrical ProseLiteraryGrief And LossClose Third PersonBittersweetScience FictionCharacter Driven
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