Monday, August 7, 2023

Review: SUNSTORM by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

CHALLENGE #7
I am reading the A TIME ODYSSEY Series by Sir Arthur C. Clarke in consecutive order, as the Cosmic foundational revelations unfold throughout the Series. Book One, TIME'S EYE, relates the folding of divergent strips of Time (from differing eras) and the presence of these self-supporting globes the humans term "Eyes." So we have 2037, 1885, astronauts from the International Space Station, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, sharing suddenly the same fold of Time and interacting; not so much on actual Earth, as on a proto-Earth onto to which Time has been folded, changing geography and geology. This world the humans (of 2037 and 1885) term Mir.

Book Two, SUNSTORM, continues to unfold the plans of the Firstborn, a species of Minds from a far distant Galaxy and from Untold Eons ago. Their plan is to stop humanity's energy consumption and was set into place before Homo Sapiens scarcely existed.

The consequence is a Sunstorm of inexplicable and unprecedented proportions, which likely will destroy ALL life on Earth (except heat-seeking extremophiles in the Earth's core) as well as farther distant planets in our Solar System.

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