The Light of Other Days

ARTHUR C. CLARKE AND STEPHEN BAXTER

ISBN 10: 0002247046 / ISBN 13: 9780002247047

Edité par VOYAGER (HARPERCOLLINS), LONDON, 2000

A propos de cet article

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.

N° de réf. du vendeur 008497

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Light of Other Days
• Éditeur: VOYAGER (HARPERCOLLINS), LONDON
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0002247046
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780002247047
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First UK Hardback Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels

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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.

À propos des auteurs

Born in Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke has written over sixty 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 was knighted in 1998. He passed away in March 2008.

Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn’t make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.