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Book SynopsisIn the most exciting SF collaboration ever, Arthur C. Clarke and his universally acknowledged heir Stephen Baxter pool talent, fantastic ideas, unprecedented cosmic insights as well as page-turning plotting skills and breathlessly good writing to produce the most awesome novel of the future since 3001.'Space is what keeps everything from being in the same place. Right?' With these words Hiram Patterson, head of the giant media corporation OurWorld, launches the greatest communications revolution in history. With OurWorld's development of wormhole technology, any point in space can be connected to any other, faster than the speed of light. Realtime television coverage is here: earthquakes and wars, murders and disasters can be watched, exactly as they occur, anywhere on the planet.Then WormCams are made to work across time as well as space. Humanity encounters itself in the light of other days. We witness the life of Jesus, go to the premiere of Hamlet, solve the enigmas that have baffl
Trade Review Praise for Arthur C. Clarke:
‘Arthur C. Clarke is the prophet of the space age’
THE TIMES
‘Arthur C. Clarke is the colossus of science fiction’
NEW YORK TIMES
Praise for Stephen Baxter:
‘The most important living science-fiction writer in the country’
THE TIMES
‘The best SF writer in Britain’
SFX
