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02470aam a2200349 i 4500 001 3B34AD60A6B511EDAB1CAA9536ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230207010047 008 220801s2022 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022035880 020 $a 1982192259 020 $a 9781982192259 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IMmBT $d NjBwBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f------ 050 00 $a PS3616.R457 $b D33 2022 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20220801 100 1 $a Presby, Joelle, $e author. 245 14 $a The dabare snake launcher / $c Joelle Presby. 264 1 $a Riverdale, NY : $b Baen, $c [2022] 300 $a 323 pages ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "New money, old tribes, and international megacorps race to build the first space elevator. With a little Dabare magic, it just might work! The Sadous, a nouveau riche West African family, are handed a plum contract as repayment for a decades-old favor that could make them all rich--if the family doesn't tear itself apart first. Two engineer daughters of the Sadou family, Pascaline and Maurie, upon whom the burden of success rests, have troubles of their own. One wants nothing more than to leave and make her own name as an engineering prodigy, while the other is troubled by fever dreams and snakes. Ethan Schmidt-Li is an ambitious megacorp executive with eyes on a big promotion--only to get more than he bargained for when put in charge of the company's make-or-break project. Endeley Adamou is the powerful nephew of a Bakweri chieftain walking the fine line between modernization and tribal tradition. These are some of the people that Tchami "Chummy" Fabrice has brought together to an ambitious end: constructing the world's first space elevator in Africa and ensuring the space industry that it catapults will enrich the continent and all involved. They have the carbon nanofiber, prime land around Kilimanjaro, and a captured rock in orbit for the tether. The hard part will be getting all these different people working together long enough to see it built"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Engineers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Executives $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Kwiri (African people) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Elevators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Aerospace engineering $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science fiction. 651 0 $a Africa $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230207011840.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3B34AD60A6B511EDAB1CAA9536ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search