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.

Sunstorm Reviews

Praise for Time' s Eye " A rousing adventure." - The New York Times Book Review""" Wonderfully entertaining . . . a story that engrosses you with its dramatized ideas about the nature of existence . . . You won' t set the book down either to eat or sleep or work if you can help it." - Chicago Tribune" "" By the end, when two of history' s most ambitious conquerors meet, we are so thoroughly invested in the characters, we can' t wait for the sequel." - Entertainment Weekly" "(Editor' s Choice) " A fast and engaging read." "- "Rocky Mountain News"" "From the Hardcover edition."

About Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke was born in Minehead in 1917. During the Second World War he served as a radar instructor for the RAF, rising to the rank of flight-lieutenant. After the war, he entered King?s college, London taking, in 1948, his Bsc in physics and mathematics with first class honours.One of the most respected of all science-fiction writers, he has won Kalinga Prize, the Aviation Space-Writers? Prize and the Westinghouse Science Writing Prize. He also shared an Oscar nomination with Stanley Kubrick for the screenplay of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was based on his story, ?The Sentinel?. He has lived in Sri Lanka since 1956.Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent SF writer of his generation. Published around the world he has also won major awards in the UK, US, Germany, and Japan. Born in 1957 he has degrees from Cambridge and Southampton. He lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife.

Additional information

Sku

GOR001412679

ISBN 13

9780575078017

ISBN 10

0575078014

Title

Sunstorm by Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Author

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Series

Gollancz S.F.

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Year published

2006-04-13

Number of pages

336

Prizes

N/A

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