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

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 theory this sort of thing ...

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

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 theory this sort of thing ...

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

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 glass has been ...

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

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 glass has been ...

Space - Stephen Baxter

Star Wars, most species tend to have a common point of interest; some basis for way of life that allows contact and interaction in a meaningful way. Stephen Baxter's first lot of aliens are so entirely different from us that it takes a great deal of time to get them to even notice humans, let alone interact with them. Reid Malenfant is party to the discovery of aliens in our solar system, along with the original discoverer of said aliens, Nemoto. To cut a very long and interesting story short, Malenfant makes contact with the aliens and goes off on a relativistic and millennia-long journey with them, wandering around the universe. They are not like us. They ...

Space - Stephen Baxter

Star Wars, most species tend to have a common point of interest; some basis for way of life that allows contact and interaction in a meaningful way. Stephen Baxter's first lot of aliens are so entirely different from us that it takes a great deal of time to get them to even notice humans, let alone interact with them. Reid Malenfant is party to the discovery of aliens in our solar system, along with the original discoverer of said aliens, Nemoto. To cut a very long and interesting story short, Malenfant makes contact with the aliens and goes off on a relativistic and millennia-long journey with them, wandering around the universe. They are not like us. They ...