Permutation City Blog

The city is a thousand million years old. The people in the city are never born, never die, and never want to leave. Alvin knows he is different but does not know why. This was a good read and played with some interesting ideas about eons of time.

This story describes the planning and construction of the world's first space elevator. This book was published later than I expected, 1979. It has won the Hugo and Nebula awards and I think it deserves them.