Time Odyssey 2: Sunstorm

Plot

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.sunstormreturned 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 Arewatching...from The Hardcover Edition.the New York Times - Gerald Jonasclarke Has Spent His Long Career Wringing Suspense And Poetry From Scientific Facts. His And Baxter's Explanation Of Why The Shield Must Be Made Of Glass Manufactured On The Moon Is More Enthralling Than Any Number Of Space Opera Shoot-'em-ups. Their Persuasive Account Of The Physics Behind The Prodigious Alien Intervention Draws On Accessible Metaphors Like ''a Ping-pong Ball Rebounding Off The Windshield Of An 18-wheeler Truck'' And ''a Pebble Thrown Into A Pond.'' And Yet, For All Its Scientific Content, The Narrative Periodically Reminds Us That The Powers Of The Aliens (which Include Time Travel) Are, To Our Pitiful Human Minds, Indistinguishable From Magic.