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The Light of Other Days

By Stephen Baxter, Arthur C. Clarke

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| Hardcover | 9780312871994

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When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and cContinue

When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy--forever. Then, as society reels, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. What happens next is a story only Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter could tell. The Light of Other Days is a novel that will change your view of what it is to be human.

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  • The Light of Other Days By Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

    A timely journey to other days Bridging the gap between the future and the past, Sir Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter have teamed up to write The Light of Other Days which looks into the near future and also into the distant past. Clarke is, of co ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • Definitively not bad. The characters are not the best but the techonological and scientific points and their effects on society are well treated.

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    Casolino Marco said on Nov 6, 2011 | Add your feedback

  • Probably closer to 2.5 stars. This is my first foray into Clarke or Baxter and it is a solid enough story.

    The story focuses on the technological advancements brought about by a man and his family that allow at first for instantaneous communication between points but then leads to the end o ... (continue)

    Probably closer to 2.5 stars. This is my first foray into Clarke or Baxter and it is a solid enough story.

    The story focuses on the technological advancements brought about by a man and his family that allow at first for instantaneous communication between points but then leads to the end of privacy as the technology matures to the point where people can create wormhole cameras anywhere. Eventually, people are able to also look into the past as well.

    The story is decent and raises some thought provoking questions about privacy and humanity in general. However, I found the characterization a bit on the weak side and it ended up taking a bit of the luster off what could have been an excellent story.

    I prefer Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch, though to be fair The Light of Other Days deals with more than just 'past viewing' tech.

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    Braydin said on Apr 23, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • Mostly dull, but a few moments of that open your mind enough to make it worth a read nonetheless.

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    Max said on Jun 19, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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