A Time Odyssey · Book 3
Firstborn
- Published
- 1 January 2007
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780345491572
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 384 pages, the longest of the trilogy, Firstborn (2007) closes out this Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter collaboration two years after Sunstorm, confronting the alien intelligence behind both earlier books directly.
Its place in A Time Odyssey
Firstborn is book 3 in the A Time Odyssey series. It follows Sunstorm. See the full A Time Odyssey reading order.
Arthur C. Clarke's final major series pairs him with Stephen Baxter for a trilogy that echoes -- without directly continuing -- the premise of 2001: A Space Odyssey : an ancient, godlike alien intelligence intervening in human affairs through enigmatic constructs called Eyes. Time's Eye (2003) opens with a catastrophic, unexplained event that shatters Earth into disconnected fragments from different historical eras -- 19th-century British soldiers, ancient Macedonians under a young Alexander the Great…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345491572
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345504487