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This hard SF collaboration between Sir Arthur Clarke and Stephen Baxter, set in Clarke`s 2001 series universe, is the second and final volume in the Time Odyssey duology. Bisesa Dutt has spent five years on an alternate version of Earth, a bizarre patchwork of people and places snatched from different time periods. Now, in the year 2037, the aliens known as the Firstborn have returned her to her London home. Meanwhile, a massive solar flare strikes the Earth, and scientists realize that it is merely the precursor of a far more devastating outpouring of solar energy that will destroy all life. Can the nations of the world unite in time to protect themselves from the flare? And will the Firstborn let them do it?
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At a dinner party in suburban London, the Time Traveller, known to the reader only as the Eminent Scientist, speaks to his guests about the fourth dimension of space--i.e. time. He states that it is possible to travel through time much as one travels through space. The guests are not persuaded, even after seeing the Eminent Scientist's time machine itself. At a later dinner party, the scientist arrives a little late, rumpled and dirty. He tells them he has spent the equivalent of eight days in the year 802,701. He encountered the Eloi, a race of delicate gentle vegetarians who exist in an idyllic garden, and the Morlocks, who live underground and operate the machinery and industrial equipment of the world. The Eloi, in other words are descendents of capitalism, and the Morlocks are the progeny of the proletariat. The Time Traveller then hurries into the year 30,000,000, where he sees a single life form--a round, tentacled thing near the ocean. He concludes that this represents the end of life on earth.
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