SUNSTORM（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　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. SUNSTORM Returned 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 are watching…
“From the Hardcover edition.”

　　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
Kings 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. 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 Northumberland with his wife.