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Time's Eye, Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

It’s been a while since my last Clarke book; it was Trigger, which really did not catch my imagination, well not like Time's Eye (ISBN:0345452488) did. If you are a SF fan this book is a must read. It’s part of a greater trilogy called A Time Odyssey, however the book could stand alone, it does not leave you with much incline to the next installment, nor leaving to many cliff hangers, I think it’s going to be a great trilogy.

Times Eyes set in the when - well you are not really sure, all you know is that the world as we know it gets cut up like a pie from all the different eras, and then put together all rearranged, slices mixed up in time. This leads to characters being thrown together across time, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Kipling and then a handful of ordinary humans just caught up in the badly made pie. The book covers a war between Khan and Alexander over Babylon - the largest remaining accessible city to our characters - whilst touching on why all this time slicing happened, but like all good science fiction leaving it up you to extrapolate on the ideas. The only evidence of there being an outside force are spherical objects appearing over this new world. The spheres have a pi value of exactly 3 –they are not from this world! The one of the nice cliffhangers left for the next book is why there were not more modern humans than those of about 2037, and the other is why this has happened.

I am giving this book a:
5/5

Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die:
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth
The Cities rise again.

Rudyard Kipling

Posted by iwsmith at February 9, 2004 06:52 PM
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If you enjoy Stephen Baxter you should try his book 'Evolution'. It turns the story of evolution and the rise and fall of mankind into a very readable book.

Posted by: terreus at February 9, 2004 08:29 PM

Terreus, I already caught Evolution, and reading my blog entry from June last year I really enjoyed the book. Baxter is defo a good SF writer.

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