/lit/ - Literature

>>13430053
hey /lit/, trying to remember a sci-fi novel I read in the 90s, was hoping you could help me out
the book was about a planet filled with life that nobody could get down to the surface of, but there was a space elevator that still connected down to the planet. the characters of the book end up putting on some cool biotech stillsuit type things and climbing down the space elevator to the planet because of some prophecy, the main character is the son of a famous cult leader or something like that
I think the book's name was something like earth well or green well or something, it featured a bunch of cool biotech and/or nanotech stuff, or at least ideas that I thought were cool at the time
thanks much for your help, here's a picture of a space elevator