Sunstorm
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Average rating3.3
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Ratings10
Average rating3.3
Two of the biggest names in SF together again; the sequel to the acclaimed TIME'S EYE The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down and it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite and embark on the most ambitious engineering project ever: the construction, at the La Grange point between the sun and the earth, of a deflecting mirror the diameter of our home planet. The price of failure? Extinction. One scientist, an expert on the sun, predicted the flare. One person who knew nothing about the sun nevertheless knew the exact date that life on earth would come to an end. She had witnessed the bizarre time dislocations brought by the 'eyes'. She knows who is responsible. This is hard SF in the grand tradition of the genre.
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3 primary booksA Time Odyssey is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.
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Continuing from [b:Time's Eye 64936 Time's Eye (A Time Odyssey, #1) Arthur C. Clarke https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388208559s/64936.jpg 1524294], but loosely. A different setting and only one character in common with the first, so it could be read on its own; but don't because you need the first anyway to make full sense of the third. My review of the first book.Should you read this? Yes if at least one of these is true:- You understand Clarke's name sells, but not guarantees actual Clarke writing.- You like other Stephen Baxter's books he's written solo.- You enjoy natural disaster novels because that's what this book mostly is.This is a welcome change from the first book, as it includes more science fiction. Like Space Odyssey, it happens in our not-so-distant future, yet we get to see how satisfyingly far technology has advanced.Its most glaring fault is that the whole book resolves a single plot point. Granted, it's a very significant plot point, but it becomes tiring because a book a third of the length would have sufficed, and the ballooning prose becomes an unnecessary delay. Nevertheless, it's better than the previous book.Nitpick: I consider a bad sign when authors sprinkle scifi pop culture references. At least here it's done sparingly.
