The new novel from the most famous science fiction writer alive -- writing with one of the hottest young SF authors of the decade.
Author 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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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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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The new novel from the most famous science fiction writer alive -- writing with one of the hottest young SF authors of the decade.
Author 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.
Read More
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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.