About this title: After developing a special camera, a physicist soon finds the invention taken out of his hands by a government determined to use the device to effectively eliminate personal privacy in the name of "security." Before people forget the notion of freedom completely, he desperately tries to adapt the device to allow "sight" into the past, but with an asteroid hurtling towards the planet, it might all be nothing more than an intellectual exercise.
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Binding: Audiobook Cassette
Publisher: Paperback Nova Audio
Date Published: 12/2000
ISBN-13:9781587880896ISBN:158788089X
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. 4 cassette(s). Abridged. read more
Binding: Audiobook Cassette
Publisher: Paperback Nova Audio
Date Published: 12/2000
ISBN-13:9781587880896ISBN:158788089X
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. 4 cassette(s). Abridged. read more
Binding: Audiobook Cassette
Publisher: Paperback Nova Audio
Date Published: 12/2000
ISBN-13:9781587880896ISBN:158788089X
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. 4 cassette(s). Abridged. read more
Binding: Audiobook Cassette
Publisher: Paperback Nova Audio
Date Published: 12/2000
ISBN-13:9781587880896ISBN:158788089X
Description: Fine Like New, Unread, not previously owned. May show signs of wear including remainder marks or stickers on book or cover. 4 cassette(s). Abridged. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor Classics
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812576405ISBN:0812576403
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Small pin type holes in corner of cover and into first 3 or 4 pages. Light edge wear. Stain on side. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. "A story of grand scientific and philosophical scope! "--Publishers Weekly (starred review) read more
Description: Acceptable. Spine is well creased. Covers show considerable wear. Acceptable Grade D reading copy. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine has some creases. Covers show wear at the edges and corners. Good Grade B reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Description: Good. Spine is smooth. Covers show some wear at the edges and corners. Good reading copy. Binding is Mass Market Paperback. Pages tanning. Used books may have price stickers. Most orders ship on the next business day. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor Classics, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812576405ISBN:0812576403
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Pages lightly tanned and tight, text clean. Corner fold to one page, no tears or stains. Cover is shiny and clean with scratches, edge wear and tiny tear. Spine is smooth. Solid copy, 370 pages. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 370 p. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: TOR Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812576405ISBN:0812576403
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. The book is very solid with bright, unmarked pages. The cover has minor shelf & edge wear. The spine has a few light creases. read more
Edition: Mass Market ed.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812576405ISBN:0812576403
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Some wear to cover, otherwise book is tight and in very good condition. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 384 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812576405ISBN:0812576403
Description: Good. Used-Good. All books at least good with clean tight text. May have some wear, creases, name, reader's crease, tanning in older books. Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312871994ISBN:0312871996
Description: Very Good. 2000 hardback with d/j. very good condition, slight wear to d/j. Thanks for looking at our books we ship fast and we guarantee books we sell. The crowning achievement of any professional writer is to get paid twice for the same material: write a piece for. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2000-04-16
ISBN-13:9780312871994ISBN:0312871996
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. No tears or chips to the DJ, interior clean and bright, binding tight, a wonderful copy throughout. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780812576405ISBN:0812576403
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Science Fiction. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book: Very Good. Minor wear. No jacket. Soft cover. 370 pages clean and bright, binding tight. "Bobby could see the Earth, complete and serene, within its cage of silver light. Fingers of green and blue pushed into the new deserts of Asia and the North American Midwest..." read more
"The premise of the book is fascinating, but clarke has this tendency to take an idea and go overboard with it. he goes off into minutiae-land and starts to lose my interest! Setting that aside, the idea (in this book is) that, if everyone in society can observe everyone else at any given time, that's pretty scary to think about. It's also interesting to see how the different factions of society deal with the ensuing total lack of privacy. I dunno, this is like big brother gone wild on steroids! DEFinitely worth reading. ol Art, he sure was a brain, that guy..."
"The WormCam is both a delight and a menace with its ability to make spies and voyeurs of its users across great swaths of space - and then of time. It's a mind-boggling and just a bit wearying ...
SciFi writers sometimes go off the deep end, pushing us back to the beginning of life or, more commonly, to the culmination of it all. These guys do it fairly well, but I still find it a bit oppressing."
"Though I mostly read softer fare and fantasy, I've always loved Arthur C. Clarke. "The Light of Other Days" shows again why - Thoughtful, provocative, insightful and fast-paced. In alignment with the genre, this novel follows the broad spectrum reaction to a single chain of technological advances and how they affect those who wrought them and the society in general. As such the central story line is a bit fragmented as they authors (Clarke and Baxter) follow the many tendrils of change and reaction to the creation of the 'Worm-Cam' an advance that allows the creation of remote viewer cameras anywhere in the world. Privacy disappears, secrets are exposed. The premise could have yielded a much longer book, but the authors keep it spare and fast. And wonderfully written."
"A decent concept, but i don't like books were the main character is the event not the people. I.E. this books was more about a new piece of technology and how it would impact the world than about the people."
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