Wheel in a Wheel or This Way Up & Out

Witness the lives of a King and an Engineer, thousands of years apart; as their vision is born.

This is a beautifully written book of the future and past. I only wish the present had Clarke's enthusiasm for either— If so we did, I'm sure that the orbital elevator would already have been built; but alas, I live in the world of the strange delusion, where promising engineers and scientists have strange accidental deaths or are enlisted to create weapons of war.

At any rate, the completed vision of this book is that of a space station that encircles earth. Connected to it are six orbital elevators. It is a beautifully symmetrical picture. I'm surprised that a sci fi tarot deck has not been done with this vision as the Wheel of Fortune—hey Dune has an unofficial tarot...