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The Light of Other Days
The Light of Other Days | Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter
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From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his generation, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass. When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting-edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times—around every corner, through every wall—the result is the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy, forever. Then the same technology proves able to look backward in time as well. The Light of Other Days is a story that will change your view of what it is to be human.
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The Light of Other Days | Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter
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I'm a huge Clarke fan so I was expecting big things from this collaboration, but it didn't really work for me. It gets off to a good start with some interesting characters and relationships, and there are lots of huge, amazing ideas as the WormCam technology - which lets you watch past events from any point in time - develops and becomes used for various purposes, but I found that I was slogging through most of the book rather than enjoying it.