The Light of Other Days

ARTHUR C. CLARKE AND STEPHEN BAXTER

ISBN 10: 0002247046 / ISBN 13: 9780002247047

Published by VOYAGER (HARPERCOLLINS), LONDON, 2000

About this Item

Science fiction novel. Hard cover with dust jacket. Not price clipped. Black boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. First published as a overseas Trade Paperback in 2000. First printing of this UK hard cover edition. Location: CAN1.

Seller Inventory # 008497

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Light of Other Days
• Publisher: VOYAGER (HARPERCOLLINS), LONDON
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002247046
• ISBN 13: 9780002247047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK Hardback Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels

About this title

Synopsis

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.

’Empty’ space is actually full, full of fluctuating energy fields that become at the Planck level a seething probabilistic froth, laced by wormholes. When the Casimir engine, a machine less than a few hundred atomic diameters wide, stabilises these wormholes, the most dramatic communications revolution in history is underway. The Earth itself becomes as transparent as glass – Wormcams enable unlimited realtime remote viewing.

But the technology is developed and owned by OurWorld, Hiram Patterson’s broadcasting, news, sport and entertainment empire. Hiram can be counted on to trivialise and exploit the new technology.

Fuming inwardly about decadent technology and excess wealth, journalist Kate Manzoni goes to work for Hiram, investigating crank religions – and dating Hiram’s son Bobby.

Then a break-through in physics allows the instrument to view not only current events but to look into the past.

About the Author

Born in Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke has written over fifty books, among which are the science fiction classics 2001, A Space Odyssey, Childhood’s End, The City and the Stars and Rendezvous With Rama. He has won all the most prestigious science fiction trophies, and shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of the film of 2001. He lives in Sri Lanka.