Space elevators in fiction

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This is a list of occurrences of 'space elevators in fiction. Some depictions were made before the space elevator concept became known.

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[edit] Novels and Fairy tales

[edit] Anime, Comics, and Manga

  • 21st Century Fox, web comic by Scott Kellogg, depicts attempt to build a proof of concept space elevator.
  • Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, anime series, contains a skyhook throughout the series.
  • Battle Angel Alita, the floating city of Tiphares/Zalem is actually the bottom end of one of two space elevators, each located on the opposite ends of the world and joined by an orbital ring. Its sister city Ketheres/Jeru is at the opposite end of the elevator.
  • The third episode of Cyber City Oedo 808 features a space elevator that criminal turned cop Benten rides to investigate a murder.
  • Dicebox, web comic, Ch.5. The space elevator, a shimmering thread against the sky, was "obsolete years before we were born", but still a tourist attraction.
  • Gunbuster
  • Hammer Locke, DC Comics limited series, features a space elevator under construction in mid-21st century Africa.
  • Kiddy Grade, anime series, in which a space elevator is used on every planet and works two ways: 1) guide space ships and help with their launch, 2) Transport people & materials through elevator services.
  • Kurau: Phantom Memory, anime series.
  • Nemesis the Warlock, comic strip by Pat Mills, book 4 The Gothic Empire.
  • Orguss Features a conflict over a space elevator
  • Outlaw Star, anime series, episode 14 "Final Countdown", features the problem of a falling elevator due to a terrorist attack.
  • Starship Operators, anime series, episode 5 Great Escape, briefly depicts an orbital elevator ride on a fictitious planet.
  • Tekkaman, anime series, depicts six "orbital elevators" located throughout Earth and locked in space by a orbital ring structure. Every episode deals with the space elevators.
  • Turn A Gundam, anime series, depicts an odd metallic space elevator which can dock space-vessels. The process is different in the point that the vessel has to be out of orbit to reach it, then the rotation of the elevator transports the vessel to local space of the moon. *Please help out on this part~*
  • Zone of the Enders: Dolores, i, anime series, contains an orbital elevator early in the series, and then is the focus of the end, where someone is trying to destroy the counterweights to make the elevator collapse. Intriguing use of emergency counterweights depicted.
  • Legend of the Galactic Heroes, anime series, depicts a space elevator in the planet Phezzan.
  • Eureka Seven

[edit] Video games

[edit] Movies and TV series

[edit] Others

  • Globus Cassus, a proposed Terraforming project that uses four space elevators during its construction.
  • Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, a multimedia project, features a skyhook in orbit around Coruscant. More such skyhooks are mentioned in other Star Wars stories.
  • In the GURPS Transhuman Space Roleplaying game source book about Mars in the year 2100, In The Well, they have placed a completed orbital elevator (Beanstalk) on Pavonis Mons, linked to Deimos. There is also a beanstalk beginning construction on Mt. Kenya.
  • The board game, Buck Rogers - Battle for the 25th Century (1988) featured a space elevator connecting the Mars territory of Pavonis to the Far Mars Orbit and the moon, Deimus.
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