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| Verlag | Ballantine |
| Auflage | 2006 |
| Seiten | 368 |
| Format | 17,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 180 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | A Time Odyssey Vol.2 |
| ISBN-10 | 0345452518 |
| EAN | 9780345452511 |
| Bestell-Nr | 34545251EA |
Die lang erwartete Fortsetzung von Times Eye als Taschenbuchausgabe. Clarke und Baxter bringen ihr großartiges Sciencefiction-Epos um Bisesa Dutt zu einem gigantischen Höhepunkt und spektakulären Finale.
Klappentext:
When 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.
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Praise for Time's Eye
"A rousing adventure."
-The New York Times Book Review
"Wonderfully entertaining . . . a story that engrosses you with its dramatized ideas about the nature of existence . . . You won't set the book down either to eat or sleep or work if you can help it."
-Chicago Tribune
"By the end, when two of history's most ambitious conquerors meet, we are so thoroughly invested in the characters, we can't wait for the sequel."
-Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)
"A fast and engaging read."
- Rocky Mountain News
From the Hardcover edition.
