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The Light of Other Days Mass Market Paperback – January 15, 2001

by Arthur C. Clarke (Author), Stephen Baxter (Author)

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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 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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"Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein succeeded. . . and now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks, writing science fiction in which the science is right. A sheer pleasure to read."--New Scientist

"Extraordinarily rich in ideas."--Los Angeles Times

"A sweeping, mind-boggling read!"--Booklist

About the Author

Born in Minehead, Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke is perhaps the most celebrated science fiction author alive today. He is the author of more than sixty books with more than 50 million copies in print, and the winner of all the field's highest honors. He was named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1986.

In 1945 he published the technical paper "Extra-terrestrial Relays", which in essence invented the principle of worldwide communication via geosynchronous satellite.

His well-known novels include Childhood's End; Against the Fall of Knight; 2001:A Space Odyssey; Rendezvous with Rama; Imperial Earth; The Fountains of Paradise; 2010: Odyssey Two; 2061: Odyssey Three, and 3001. In 1968, he collaborated with director Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was derived from his story "The Sentinel."

He has lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka since 1956. He was awarded the CBE in 1989 and knighted in 1998.

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Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction; 1st Printing edition (January 15, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812576403
ISBN-13: 978-0812576405
Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1.1 x 6.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 134 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,326,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4390 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Hard Science Fiction

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Gabe Waggoner

A fascinating exploration of the meaning of privacy

December 30, 2017

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When privacy becomes impossible and anyone can review (almost) any moment in history without distortion, the nature of human existence changes totally. Fascinating. The book also includes using the wormholes into the past to explore the history of our planet.

For books that Arthur C. Clarke, my favorite author, cowrote with someone else, I'm never sure how to give credit to the right author for various aspects of the story. (I had the same issue with all the books in the Rama series beyond the first one, but I cherished those novels, too.)

Even so, this is one of my favorites. I didn't discover this book until 2011, but it affected me in a big way. As someone who believes that science and technology have the power to remake our existence, and maybe even serve as a means to technologically resurrect us, I loved this book on a conceptual level. Bring on the Singularity.

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spudboy100

Clarke and Baxter. The best.

December 31, 2016

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Splendid work by A.C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. The idea of the novel is greater than the novel itself. Life, Death, combining Google with a cosmic micro wormhole. The actual physics of wormhole and the implementation of nanotech, in information gathering, is a long way off. Having said this, a bit of the theoretical physics has caught up (on paper) with the dreams of the authors. History then, becomes known, and privacy vanishes. In exchange for that, let me say, tomorrow opens up. So, Buy. and Bye!

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The next great invention!

May 30, 2018

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This is about the next great invention -- the one that will change EVERYTHING in everyone's lives -- from politics to history. If you did not read the appendix, you missed the entire point. Don't forget, Arthur Clarke is a real scientist, not just a sci-fi author.

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David Hill

Good ideas, Lousy Characters.

March 30, 2016

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I don't know if Baxter of Clarke did most of the writing here, but it seems like classic Clarke. Good ideas, laid out fairly well, but with a cast of characters totally devoid of interest. At the end, I still couldn't keep them straight, and found that I didn't care. The book will make you think, and that's a worthy thing. Despite the byline about being about the transformation of humanity, I found it dark and negative.

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Matthew Warner

Couldn't Put It Down

April 20, 2000

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There aren't many books that will make me put my life on hold to finish it, and this was one of them. It's not just the great writing technique, it's not just the highly-creditialed authors, and it's not just the interesting action. Like all Arthur Clarke books, this one makes you think. In this case, you're left in a deep state of distraction about the sociological consequences of a radically invasive and dangerous technology. Did anyone see the articles about Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems who said, "We are dealing now with technologies that are so transformatively powerful that they threaten our species"? (Washington Post, 4/16/00) This book is right on the money; it could easily be the grist for a hundred serious PhD dissertations. BUY IT! You're not often going to read such a well thought-out and relevant work of science fiction.

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Alejandro Customer Loya

Better than Fahrenheit 451

November 6, 2015

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Probably one of the most thought provoking books out there. If you think Fahrenheit 451 was good this is better. It takes a concept we all secretly want to believe in and gives an intriguing and undeniable look into its possibilities but also the possibilities of human nature. What would we do with this what would it lead to? What would we discover about ourselves and would we like that discovery?

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JDubs

A must-read for any sci-fi fan

November 22, 2015

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. My genetics professor mentioned it in class and I wrote it down, eventually buying a hard copy as a gift for my roommate who loves sci-fi as much as I do. I received the kindle version of it with my purchase and after hearing my friend rave about it for a few days I dove in. It has a slow start but the promise of the storyline and where it offers to take the reader is too tantalizing to ignore. I still find myself thinking about this book and its conclusion, almost 2 months after having finished it! I'm a big fan of Orson Scott Card's Ender series, and this was my first Clarke novel.

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Steven M. Franey

Best example of "Hard" sci-fi ever written.

February 28, 2011

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I especially enjoyed this audio presentation of The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. I have read some of their other collaborations such as Times Eye and Manifold Time. Those novels are good but this one is better. I was immediately drawn in by the main characters as they first discover and then learn to use a new and exciting technology. The novel really gets into both the hard scientific facts and fanciful theories about time travel and also delvels into a the very suprising and specific ways in wich this new discovery affects all the main characters. It was this attention to the way in wich a simple at first invention in a laboratory can quickly enter into and ultimately change all of society on a massive scale that I found so exciting. The "worm-cam" communication device invented to better out-run the competition in the game of immediate sound bite news and gotcha journalism soon evolves into a "past-viewer" that throws all of human history in all its gory, confusing, frightening detail up on the big screen of social consciousness. This is the backdrop for the story of one family struggling to make it's way forward thru a fast changing world dominated by spying and voyeurism. The later advancements of this technolgy first invented simply as a commincations device turn out to have consequences at least as profound for all of mankind when some people begin to voluntarily merge into a sort of super-mind. Tv was invented to enable sight and sound communication across great distances. Look how that simple invention has led to so much else. The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, the moon landing, Kent State, Luke and Laura, MTV, 24 hour news, Live Aid, HBO, CSPAN, Video on Demand... Not all of these events and occurrences were foreseen by tv's makers but our modern lives would be vastly different if we hadn't all grown up together in a world dominated by tv. This novel gives us a fun and startling glimpse into what may be possible in some near future if technology continues to advance and I for one really enjoyed this reading.

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