The Light of Other Days

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In the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his universally acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent, fantastic ideas, unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since 3001. 'Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?' With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light. Realtime television coverage is here: earthquakes and wars, murders and disasters can be watched, exactly as they occur, anywhere on the planet. Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space. Humanity encounters itself in the light of other days. We witness the life of Jesus, go to the premiere of Hamlet, solve the enigmas that have baffled generations. Blood spilled centuries ago flows vividly once more -- and no personal treachery or shame can be concealed. But when the world and everything in it becomes as transparent as glass and there are no more secrets, people find new ways to gain vengeance and commit crime, and Hiram Patterson finds new ways to keep his Machiavellian schemes secret.

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Published
01/07/2002

Publisher
Voyager

ISBN
9780006483748

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'Two titans of hard SF team up for a story of grand scientific and philosophical scope! The large-scale implications addressed are impressive in this potent story' Publishers Weekly

UK Kirkus review

Clarke remains the most celebrated of all British SF authors, and his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey (an explanation of a Clarke short story) consolidated his already impressive reputation. His speciality has always been ideas - breathtakingly imaginative concepts that carry the reader into new realms (such as the massive enigmatic alien spacecraft in Rendezvous with Rama), more than making up for his famously rudimentary characterization. Clarke is (thankfully) still with us, but his literary endeavours these days seem to lie in the realm of ideas for other writers to work into novels. Not a problem, when the other writer is Clarke's heir apparent, the phenomenally talented Baxter. Hiram Patterson, magnate behind the massive media Corporation OurWorld, is inaugurating the most significant communications revolution in history. Utilizing wormholes in space, Patterson's WormCams can connect any point to any other, turning the walls of time and distance to glass. This is the breathtaking concept behind this collaboration which remains the finest thing Clarke's name has been associated with in years. (Kirkus UK)