A Time Odyssey · Book 2
Sunstorm
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 330
- ISBN-13
- 9780345452504
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sunstorm followed Time's Eye two years later, in 2005, at 330 pages, shifting Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter's A Time Odyssey trilogy to a near-future crisis as humanity braces for a solar catastrophe engineered by the alien Firstborn intelligence to test civilizations. It bridges Time's Eye's shattered, patchwork Earth and Firstborn's more direct 2007 confrontation with that intelligence, in one of the most purely Clarke-ian collaborations of Baxter's career.
Its place in A Time Odyssey
Sunstorm is book 2 in the A Time Odyssey series. It follows Time's Eye. It is followed by Firstborn. 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
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- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575078017