The Light of Other Days, Arthur C. Clarke
The Light of Other Days, Arthur C. Clarke
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The Light of Other Days

Author: Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Baxter

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 11 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 03/25/2007

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

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.

About Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke was considered to be the greatest science fiction writer of all time. He was an international treasure in many other ways: an article he wrote in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Mr. Clarke - both fiction and nonfiction - have more than one hundred million copies in print worldwide. He died in 2008 at the age of 90.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Scot on July 03, 2011

This is what sci-fi is all about. Highly recommend it. When the world discovers how and when it will end, the decline of humanity begins immediately. Most people become nothing more than animals seeking hedonistic pleasures, as if they believed they were going to die that day. But one fellow keeps hi......more

Goodreads review by رزی - on July 15, 2022

Not my cup of tea. The historical parts were interesting, except for that part about Christ. Characters were awfully made. The idea scared the hell out of me. Vibes like "The Absolute at Large".......more

Goodreads review by erforscherin on January 17, 2016

I first read this book in summer 2008, and probably not a month has gone by since then that this book hasn't popped into my mind, for one reason or another. The technology and social issues discussed here (particularly regarding the ever-evolving definition of privacy in a society where technology a......more

Goodreads review by Aimee on June 17, 2010

Well, it was an interesting idea for a book: quantum physics allow instantaneous transmissions of data across space - cool enough. Then, because of distance-time equivalence in a quantum universe, scientists are able to start beaming transmissions from anywhere in time as well as space. The technolo......more

Goodreads review by Greg Kennedy on May 08, 2011

First the bad: It felt at times like a bizarre collision of cyberpunk and classic golden-age sci fi. The characters sucked big time. The pacing and focus sometimes drifted too much. I am maybe too squeamish about sex scenes, but this felt over the top. The backdrop and "near future" was nearly too f......more