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The Light of Other Days

The Light of Other Days is a 2000 hard science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter.

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The Light of Other Days concerns the development of wormhole technology to the point where information can be passed instantaneously between points in the space-time continuum.

First pure information is sent via gamma rays, then a development allows light waves to travel. The media corporation who develops this advance can spy on anywhere it chooses. A logical development from the laws of space-time allows light waves to be detected from the past.

The novel looks at the philosophical issues that arise from the world's population (increasingly suffering from ecological and political disturbances) being aware that they could be under constant observation from the future, whilst simultaneously being able to look at the past events of their families and their heros. An underground forms which attempts to usurp the observation; nations discover the true causes and outcomes of international conflicts; and religions worldwide are forced to reevaluate their divine histories.

ISBN 0-00-224704-6

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"Light of Other Days" is a science fiction short story by Bob Shaw.

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