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When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writerever, teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who sharesClarke's bold vision of a future where technology and humanismadvance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellarambition and accomplishment. Such was the case with Time's Eye.Now, in the highly anticipated sequel, Clarke and Baxter draw theirepic to a triumphant conclusion that is as mind-blowing as anythingin Clarke's famous Space Odyssey series. SUNSTORM Returned to theEarth of 2037 by the Firstborn, mysterious beings of almostlimitless technological prowess, Bisesa Dutt is haunted by thememories of her five years spent on the strange alternate Earthcalled Mir, a jigsaw-puzzle world made up of lands and people cutout of different eras of Earth's history. Why did the Firstborncreate Mir? Why was Bisesa taken there and then brought back on theday after her original disappearance? Bisesa's questions receive achilling answer when scientists discover an anomaly in the sun'score-an anomaly that has no natural cause is evidence of alienintervention over two thousand years before. Now plans set inmotion millennia ago by inscrutable watchers light-years away arecoming to fruition in a sunstorm designed to scour the Earth of alllife in a bombardment of deadly radiation. Thus commences a furiousrace against a ticking solar time bomb. But even now, as apocalypselooms, cooperation is not easy for the peoples and nations of theEarth. Religious and political differences threaten to undermineevery effort. And all the while, the Firstborn are watching..."From the Hardcover edition."