Tower to the Sky

Jennings, Phillip C. Tower to the Sky. New York: Baen, 1988.

High-tech story of a space elevator, told in "the cluttered, telegraphic style of the cyberpunks." People live in "hundreds of different cultures" within the tower, and there's a chance it may "be convertible into the largest spaceship in the universe," for one very big mechanized environment. Rev. Michael M. Levy, SF&FBR Annual 1989: 302, source for this entry, and quote. Cf. and contrast A. C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise and Charles Sheffield's The Web Between the Worlds (both 1979).