The Light of Other Days \ufffd 2000

Extrapolates the present morbid interest in Information, the death of ethics as a concept - along the lines of the usual homo-sap confusion of excess with success. (Add-in the incentive to capitalize on everything imaginable, especially by those already $-besotted -- like Now)

You'll Love the QM overtones, I'd guess.. while merrily dissecting the assumptions ;-)

I give it ****\ufffd Would say Must See! except.. that's counterproductive in the ones who Question Authority; for those: Don't Buy This Book.

Ashton



PS for the non-DeS-specific Review:

Apparently ACC thinks highly of Mr. Baxter (John W. Campbell Award winner), his collaborator on this. Scienterrific plausibility aside, I think he's (they've) nailed our cupidity, gullibility and Total Historical Blindness to a fare-thee well, and the consequences follow inexorably as: Today's prewar non-News / Next week's fait accompli.

My presumption is that the major plot-line is Clarke's, so I didn't pay much critical attention to trying to separate-out narrative style. I thought that the ideas transcended the storytelling..

Obv YMDV (did vary) ;-)

Ashton

(No, he ain't a replacement for Vonnegut, but then..)