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The Light of Other Days (Paperback)

by Arthur C. Clarke (Author), Stephen Baxter (Author)
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  • Paperback: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Voyager (1 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006483747
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006483748
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 216,922 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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SF's grand old man Sir Arthur teams up with newer star Baxter to tackle a whopping science-fiction idea with ample scope for both their talents. Their "WormCam" video camera looks across any distance through tiny wormholes in space. Initially this seems no worse than a remote TV link, but it transforms the world as disquieting cans of worms are irrevocably opened. This gadget is a veritable WormCan.

Distance is no obstacle. Neither are walls. Early WormCams allow daringly invasive newspaper scoops--and once the general public can buy them, personal privacy vanishes forever. Anyone can spy on you anywhere. Or anywhen, because next-generation WormCams peer through time as well as space ... at your embarrassing old secrets, at mysteries of the past, at the truth about old murders, Princess Di, the Mary Celeste, Abraham Lincoln, and even Jesus.

As WormCams steadily improve, they probe into deep time: spying on early man, walking with dinosaurs, back and back to a poignant SF vision of what came before life as we know it. It builds towards an utopian dream of the wonders humanity could achieve if given total access to its past.

Clarke and Baxter ramble intriguingly in all directions, exploring every implication. Their imaginative set-pieces are linked by a slightly soap-operatic plot featuring the megalomaniac entrepreneur whose labs built the WormCam, the sons he's manipulated like puppets, and one son's girlfriend who becomes a spanner in (as the lab's nicknamed) the WormWorks. Wide-ranging, ambitious and enjoyable. --David Langford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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'Two titans of hard SF team up for a story of grand scientific and philosophical scope! The large-scale implications addressed are impressive in this potent story' Publishers Weekly
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4.0 out of 5 stars Once you open Pandora's box....., 22 Sep 2006
By Steve "---steve---" (Littlehampton) - See all my reviews
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This book revolves around the invention by a power hungry business fat cat of the WormCam - a wormhole camera. The development starts as a way of linking points in space so that everything can be witnessed in real time and just as people are getting used to this concept, the technology is developed further to link points in time. To be precise, to view any point, anybody, anywhere in history. And the technology is available to all.
Now humanity has to suffer the escalating consequences of knowing every secret ever kept and the horrific realisation that people of the future are watching them, now.
This is a clever book of unravelling horror. Not for those already pre-disposed to paranoia.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Book, 7 Sep 2002
By Sarah Koniewicz (New York, United States) - See all my reviews
This book epitimizes the aspects of a thought provoking book. It is a rare to find fiction that that is concurrently scientifically, sociologically, historically, and politically intelligent. It takes a technological breakthrough and illustrates in a believable way how the world would react. In a more progressive minded world this would be an instant classic. I recommend this book very highly, easily the equal of any classic on the so-called human condition that I've read and enjoyed. The worst part of this book is that it has to end at some point despite it getting more and more interesting as you go on.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking, 9 Oct 2001
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This review is from: The Light of Other Days (Paperback)
It is strange how two people's opinion of a book can be so different. Granted this book is not hardcore SciFi and may not appeal to the majority of 'techies' out there, but I must say that it is quite visionary in it's approach to the social impact of 'wormcams' and how society can be influenced so profoundly be such a technology.
All in all a great read, and certainly worth the price.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply dazzling
This is the best book I've read in a long time.

Whether it's straight-forward high quality science fiction you're after, or just a good story that you can't put down,... Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2006 by Jean Paul

5.0 out of 5 stars Science fiction without character is just scientific speculation
I felt I had to write this review to counteract Robert Holmes' fairly damning comments about the characterisations in this book. Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2006 by Lesley Hunt

4.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking
The wealth of ideas in this book are so expansive and in a sence magnificent that it makes the outlook of even religons seem quite small.
Published on 9 Feb 2006

3.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing light of other days
The Light of Other Days is a science fiction novel written by Stephen Baxter, based on an outline, ideas, and extensive editorial input by Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2003 by Robert Holm

4.0 out of 5 stars intriguing examination of the slide down the slippery slop
I read this book several years ago while on a cruise and found it hard to put down. I agree with the other editorialist, that you read such books not because of the compelling... Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars If only we could buy WormCams......
Like many science fiction books the interest lies in the ideas it contains and not the writing or even storyline. Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2002 by Elizabeth Taylor

1.0 out of 5 stars A Disjointed Set of Storylines
I have read many books by both Baxter and Clarke and when I saw this I was hoping for something special. I was very dissapointed. Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2001 by Mr Chris Turner

1.0 out of 5 stars Stephen Baxter wastes his time with Clarke
Stephen Baxter has written some of the most thought provoking sf in recent years but why he wasted his time on this book incomprehensible. Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2001

2.0 out of 5 stars Well below the authors' standards
On the back cover of the edition I bought, the reader is promised deep philosophical ideas about a society in which privacy of any kind no longer exists. Read more
Published on 8 May 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary stuff
I enjoyed it immensely. It's fun. The plot bears Clarke's light touch and Baxter keeps the text short and sinewy. Read more
Published on 21 April 2001

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