Building Up: The Novelway Prototype Shop, Crisis On First KESTS, And the technical background of the concepts

This first of the four science fiction novels by Jim Cline centers around the adventures of building the first Anchored Tether Space Elevator, the first wheel-type Space Station in Low Earth Orbit, And the first Kinetic Energy Supported Transportation Structure to Geostationary Earth Orbit. It also includes the associated short stories and the technical background of the concepts in these stories.