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==Similarities with other works of Clarke==
* In the middle of ''The Fountains of Paradise'', an unmanned robotic spaceship of alien origin, called "Starglider" (from an origin world dubbed "Starholme") by Clarke, passes through the Solar system. This situation is similar to ''[[Rendezvous with Rama]]'', though the ship and its interactions with humans are very different.
* The first third of ''[[3001: The Final Odyssey]]'' describes details of the interior of the ring habitat that encircles Earth, and is connected to Earth's surface with four space elevators. At the end of ''The Fountains of Paradise'', this ring habitat is shown for the first time, though it has six space elevators rather than the four of ''3001: Final Odyssey''.
* At the end of the novel, Earth turns into an icy wasteland because the Sun has cooled. The same situation also occurs in the story "[[History Lesson]]".
* The alien shown near the end of ''The Fountains of Paradise'' is a somewhat more physical form of the Swarm, the aliens that land on primeval Earth in "[[The Possessed (short story)|The Possessed]]".
* A [[space elevator]] is also constructed in the course of Clarke's final novel (co-written with [[Frederik Pohl]]), ''[[The Last Theorem]]''.