Jim Cline: 8 books

Their corporate bosses have given them a dangerous job intended to fail - the building of the first small Space Elevator - but when they succeed at that task, they are transferred to another project, that of finishing building the first classical wheel-type Space Station in LEO - where they discover...

A science fiction short story, where an ambassador from the federation of Planets is gathering data so as to establish the most effective trading method with the natives, but suddenly finds himself in deep trouble.

On a rainy day which had canceled out a glider training flight, the time was spent investigating an odd rectangle in the desert vegetation off the edge of an old runway. What they found there brought memories of WWII-era tale that enlivened nights around the campfire at the ranch long ago.

The seven billion people of the Clarke Belt Cities are desperately seeking ways to return to their homes on the ground, after being stranded in GEO by the cutting down of their centrifugally-supported space escallator by which they had temporarily migrated to cities built up there, to live in while the Earth's ecosystem was being restored to viability again. Now, how can they get back down?

The 3Musketeers are building a huge space carousel escalator so as to enable use of GEO to save civilization and restore the collapsed ecosystem, but they are thwarted by the Elite's TANFL Corp. Then TANFL realizes it can take over the world by helping the 3Musketeers achieve their dream of building...

The mostly abandoned cities of the Clarke Belt Habitat Ring are being dismantled. The old KESTS is crumbling, so they decide to return the water ice back to the Earth and the aluminum to the Moon. But they discover that the remnants of the old TANFL rulers of the Earth are living there; how can they...

Sequel to "Going Past the Town Prison," Geodon and Nansella learn to live in exile, but assisted by the strange but helpful Rardats they had found hibernating in their millennia-old airship. Then they find that the Rardat's mortal enemy has followed them here, and all were in danger. How...

An exercise application of General Systems Theory: Review the fundamental concept of "transportation;" the theory and application of "Kinetic Energy Supported Transportation Structures," including an integrated earth-surface-to-GEO bridge system; lunar-surface-to-earth orbit transportation;...