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The Light of Other Days - Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter

Description: ISBN 0006483747 / Author: Stephen Baxter / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / 'Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. ... more

The Light of Other Days - Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter ... 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.

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... WormCams, privacy becomes a thing of the past: photons can be channelled through artificially maintained wormholes from anywhere at all. The technology quickly spreads, and soon anybody can eavesdrop on the President's conversation, spy on masturbating teenagers, surveil their husband or wife, or watch complete strangers. Then David (Dah-veed, remember) extends the possibilities of his father's invention, finding a way of looping the wormholes out through light-minutes and eventually light-years, so that the images ...more

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The Light of Other Days - Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter: Sneaky, Sneaky.. Catchy Monkey.. (1399 words)
by - written on 30/06/04 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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Bob Shaw's small, perfectly formed story 'The Light of Other Days' has enjoyed a prolonged life. It appeared in Analog in 1966 to widespread acclaim, and Shaw later wrote sequel stories and expanded the concept into a novel, Other Days, Other Eyes (1972). Based on the intriguing premise of 'slow glass', glass through which light takes years to travel, it remains one of the finest in 60s SF, and it is a small scandal that it is not now in print. Now two of the most respected names in British Hard SF have collaborated to bring out a new version of this tale, re-using Shaw's haunting title and dedicating the novel 'To Bob Shaw'. The ... Read the complete review

Someone's watching you ! (314 words)
by - written on 09/10/01 (Useful, 42 readings)
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I picked this book up purely by chance, read the summary and decided I would give it ago. Having tried to read Arthur C Clarkes Titanic, I thought I was in for yet another heavy and deep sci-fi. But I was pleasantly surprised and enthralled by the plot, and his excellent writing style. The author manages to take complicated scientific theories, and turn tem into comprehensive explanations that fit in well with the flow of the book as a whole. The story begins along way in the future, when a new technology is developed which enables light to be transmitted through worm holes at a sub-atomic level (the physics behind this is as interesting as the fiction, in ... Read the complete review