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    The Light of Other Days
    The Light of Other Days
    The Light of Other Days
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Light of Other Days

    Written by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 25, 2007
    ISBN9781423330752
    The Light of Other Days
    Author

    Arthur C. Clarke

    Born in Somerset in 1917, Arthur C. Clarke has written over sixty books, among which are the science fiction classics ‘2001, A Space Odyssey’, ‘Childhood’s End’, ‘The City and the Stars’ and ‘Rendezvous With Rama’. He has won all the most prestigious science fiction trophies, and shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of the film of 2001. He was knighted in 1998. He passed away in March 2008.

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    • 5/5
      I like mind strecthing stories that ask deep philosophical questions. This one scratches that itch quite thoroughly.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Did love it. Well concede story, interesting characters, tremendous ideas about the future, technology, and the past too. As far as science fiction goes, no doubts a Story of Stories.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The writing is very good, but the real purpose is not. This is obviously libelously anti-Christian propaganda dressed up as entertainment. The authors’ attack on the God of the Bible is both subtle and bold, but it is non-stop. The value of works of fiction for Satan, the Father of Lies, is that one can believe whatever you want and still have a happily ever after ending. Real life is not like that, however. This universe is governed by rules which do not care what our opinions are. The God of the Bible is easily proved to be real and the Bible is easily proved to be a work of beyond human authorship and completely accurate. Jesus is easily proved to be the God of the Bible wrapped in human flesh. But man will go to any lengths to discredit them all because he has sided with Satan. I have debated dozens of intellectual atheists and, when their arguments are proved hollow, mistaken, or complete lies, they always resort to name-calling. Man has abandoned logic, reason, and the overwhelming, in-your-face evidences to these in the empty hope that, if we just pretend hard enough, God will have to go away and not punish us for our rebellion against Him. Fools.
      I rate the writing 5 stars.
      I rate the plot 5 stars.
      I rate the pseudo-intellectual anti-God propaganda 0 stars.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Clarke gorges on humanism. After building his world and creating his plot device, Clarke regurgitates his humanistic ideology, even switching to a mostly narration format in order to cram so much content into a small space. At about two-thirds through, he proceeds to marginalize Jesus Christ. By the end of the book, he would have you believe that humans evolved from chance molecules and evolved into gods.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      It was an interesting audiobook. Some parts were very boring (like Jesus' life) but I enjoyed the very last part when they investigate the origins of our specie.