عنوان

Time's eye /

(Number (ISBN

034545247X

(Number (ISBN

0345452488

(Number (ISBN

9780345452474

(Number (ISBN

9780345452481

Number

b778413

Publisher's Number

62611

Source

Science Fiction Book Club

Title Proper

Time's eye /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Ballantine Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2004.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2004

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

337 pages ;

Dimensions

25 cm +

Accompanying Material

1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).

Series Title

A time odyssey ;

Volume Designation

1

Text of Note

"A Del Rey book"--Title page verso.

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"Del Rey"--Page opposite title page, book jacket back flap, and spine.

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Book design by Julie Schroeder.

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First edition January 2004.

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Jacket design and illustration by David Stevenson.

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Adobe eBook edition of Manifold / Stephen Baxter -- Adobe eBook edition of Evolution / Stephen Baxter -- Adobe eBook edition of Creating Time's eye: two pioneering voices, one epic vision: an in-depth look (Includes: A conversation with Sir Arthur C. Clarke -- An essay on the vision of Arthur C. Clarke -- Extensive bios and bibliographies and more)

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Text of Note

Sir Arthur C. Clarke is a living legend, a writer whose name has been synonymous with science fiction for more than fifty years. An indomitable believer in human and scientific potential, Clarke is a genuine visionary. If Clarke has an heir among today's science fiction writers, it is award-winning author Stephen Baxter. In each of his acclaimed novels, Baxter has demonstrated dazzling gifts of imagination and intellect, along with a rare ability to bring the most cerebral science dramatically to life. Now these two champions of humanism and scientific speculation have combined their talents in a novel sure to be one of the most talked-about of the year, a 2001 for the new millennium. TIME'S EYE For eons, Earth has been under observation by the Firstborn, beings almost as old as the universe itself. The Firstborn are unknown to humankind- until they act. In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still? The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037-three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan-have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge ... and the power that lies within. Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting. ...

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System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: not given.

Title

Time's eye.

Title

Time's eye.

Space and time, Fiction.

Space and time.

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Clarke, Arthur C., (Arthur Charles),1917-2008

Baxter, Stephen

Schroeder, Julie

Stevenson, David G.,1962-

Date of Transaction

20201203120057.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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