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Title: The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter ISBN: 0-312-87199-6 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (75 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The soap opera of time
Comment: If only Arthur C. Clarke had written this by himself! It might have been a masterpiece on the order of Childhood's End or Against the Fall of Night. But alas, the WormCam discoveries about the true past, the best parts of the book, are diluted by insipid main characters involved in a tedious plotline that all too often sinks into silliness and melodrama. Some of the writing is rather poetic and evocative, particularly the concluding tour back to the beginning of life on earth. But far too much of the book is a predictable novel-by-numbers exercise. The worst bit of unpredictable nonsense is saved for the end, however. In perhaps the most absurd epilogue I've ever read, in a remarkably off-hand way the right-to-life agenda becomes the sudden and insane conclusion. All in all, this is a disappointing book, considering Clarke's many other fine imaginative novels.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting ideas
Comment: I picked this book up because of Arthur C. Clarke, and it is my first time reading Stephen Baxter. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The exploration of how society reacts when all privacy is absolutely stripped away, and when all of Earth's history - back to the first life form - is available for everyone to see with 100% accuracy, could have been explored at greater length. "True biographies" of famous people such as Jesus and Abraham Lincoln are obtained with the WormCam technology, and found to be significantly different from what is widely believed. I found the book somewhat predictable, but the ideas were engaging.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you like to think, this book is for you.
Comment: This book was excellent. I am a long time fan of Arthur C. Clarke and a fan of Stephen Baxter. I was surprised that some reviewers thought it was such a grim perspective on the future of Humanity. I thought it was very positive and thought provoking
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Title: Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey, Book 1) by ARTHUR C. CLARKE, STEPHEN BAXTER ISBN: 0345452488 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Moonseed by Stephen Baxter ISBN: 006105903X Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Trigger by Arthur C. Clarke, Michael P. Kube-McDowell ISBN: 0553576208 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Manifold: Time by Stephen Baxter ISBN: 034543076X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 28 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Time Ships by Stephen Baxter ISBN: 0061056480 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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