Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780345452511 ISBN: 0345452518 Label: Del Rey Manufacturer: Del Rey Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: February 28, 2006 Publisher: Del Rey Release Date: February 28, 2006 Sales Rank: 86033 Studio: Del Rey
Product DescriptionWhen Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writer ever, teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who shares Clarke’s bold vision of a future where technology and humanism advance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellar ambition and accomplishment. Such was the case with Time’s Eye. Now, in the highly anticipated sequel, Clarke and Baxter draw their epic to a triumphant conclusion that is as mind-blowing as anything in Clarke’s famous Space Odyssey series.
SUNSTORM
Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth’s history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance?
Bisesa’s questions receive a chilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in the sun’s core–an anomaly that has no natural cause is evidence of alien intervention over two thousand years before. Now plans set in motion millennia ago by inscrutable watchers light-years away are coming to fruition in a sunstorm designed to scour the Earth of all life in a bombardment of deadly radiation.
Thus commences a furious race against a ticking solar time bomb. But even now, as apocalypse looms, cooperation is not easy for the peoples and nations of the Earth. Religious and political differences threaten to undermine every effort.
And all the while, the Firstborn are watching...
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Endlessly Ending His Career
FirstBorn has a great many plots all running at once and all leading to a final great climax. Very well written until the author ran out...... the end is so pathetic as to be meaningless..... 2001 A Space Odyssey at least had a suggestion of meaning. This was a Dead.....end
Rating: - Lacks continuity from the first book of the trilogy.
First book was much more of an interesting concept. I thought this would carry over into the second book. Hopefully it raps things up with a little more interest in the third book.
Rating: - Cool Core Ideas
Obviously you have to read "Time's Eye" first.
This book, as with most Clarke books, has some future tech that is more than a bit intriguing. That we can probably produce aluminum on the moon was a surprise to me. I love the idea of building a space sling from that material there.
Also, reading it gave me the spark of an idea to look into generating power from vacuum.
shannon norrell
Rating: - weak, counterintuitive, and left wing
an old civilization in a nearby star, recognizing that Earth will give rise to Energy craven Humans, plan Man's extinction by hurling a large planet into our Sun at 4 BC. That event caused electromagnetic disturbance in the Brain of newborn Jesus ( typical Talmudic attack ). It also set in motion a major energy flux in the 21st century meant to exterminate all Humans ( because there is no end to Man's energy craven zeal ). (Muhammed by the way is documented to have had periods of Loss of Consciousness, ... Read More
Rating: - Worst Clarke book ever...
This is probably the worst Clarke's book (because, admit it, who cares about Baxter? he said, jokingly.) I've read. Not that it's *totally* bad, and it does keep you engrossed and turning pages from the very beginning, but:
-the scenario has not the grand scope that Clarke has gotten us used to and the idea is far from original (the sun is going to destroy the Earth? Come on, this is Hollywood stuff!). The first book of the trilogy was much more original and interesting as a premise
-He's ... Read More
- Endlessly Ending His Career
- Cool Core Ideas
- Worst Clarke book ever...
