Sunstorm

Arthur Charles Clarke, Stephen Baxter

Ballantine Books, 2006 - Fiction - 356 pages

When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writer ever, teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who shares Clarke’s bold vision of a future where technology and humanism advance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellar ambition and accomplishment. Such was the case with Time’s Eye. Now, in the highly anticipated sequel, Clarke and Baxter draw their epic to a triumphant conclusion that is as mind-blowing as anything in Clarke’s famous Space Odyssey series.

SUNSTORM

Returned to the Earth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almost limitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by the memories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earth called Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cut out of different eras of Earth’s history. Why did the Firstborn create Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on the day after her original disappearance?

Bisesa’s questions receive a chilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in the sun’s core–an anomaly that has no natural cause is evidence of alien intervention over two thousand years before. Now plans set in motion millennia ago by inscrutable watchers light-years away are coming to fruition in a sunstorm designed to scour the Earth of all life in a bombardment of deadly radiation.

Thus commences a furious race against a ticking solar time bomb. But even now, as apocalypse looms, cooperation is not easy for the peoples and nations of the Earth. Religious and political differences threaten to undermine every effort.

And all the while, the Firstborn are watching...


From the Hardcover edition.

What people are saying

Review: Sunstorm (A Time Odyssey #2)

User Review  - Dan - Goodreads

For a sequel, this has little connection to the first book. There's no timey-wimey goings-on here, this is all about the science. Basically the plot revolves around the idea of there being a massive ...

Review: Sunstorm (A Time Odyssey #2)

User Review  - Rich Meyer - Goodreads

Not a bad science fiction/disaster tale, but the characterizations arr pretty dull and cardboard. As with a lot of his books, the computers come off as more interesting characters than the humans ...

About the author

ARTHUR C. CLARKE is considered the greatest science fiction writer of all time and is an international treasure in many other ways, including the fact that a 1945 article by him in 1945 led to the invention of satellite technology. Books by Clarke–both fiction and nonfiction–have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. He lives in Sri Lanka.

STEPHEN BAXTER is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge and Southampton universities. Baxter is the acclaimed author of the Manifold novels and Evolution. He is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award, the Locus Award, the John W. Campbell Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award.


From the Hardcover edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sunstorm; Book 2 of Time Odyssey, Arthur Charles Clarke
• Authors: Arthur Charles Clarke, Stephen Baxter
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2006
• ISBN: 0345452518, 9780345452511
• Length: 356 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera