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The Light of Other Daysby Arthur Charles Clarke
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of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and
the Hugo and Nebula-winning Rendezvous with
Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is, quite simply, one of the greatest science
fiction writers of the century. He is -- with H. G.
Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein -- one of
the writers who define science fiction in our time.
Now he joins forces with Stephen Baxter -- the John W. Campbell Award-winning author of The Time Ships and Voyage, called by Time Out "the most credible heir to the hard SF tradition previously monopolized by Clarke and Asimov" -- for a spectacular novel about nothing less than the transformation of humanity itself. The Light of Other Days tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy -- forever. Then, as society
reels, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well.
Nothing can prepare us for what this means. It
is a fundamental change in the terms of the human condition. The Light
of Days is the science-fiction event of the season...and a worthy addition
to the shelf of Clarke's best work.
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