Author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and the Hugo and Nebula-winning Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke is, quite simply, one of the greatest science fiction writers of the century. He is - with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein - one of the writers who define science fiction in our time.

Now he joins forces with Stephen Baxter - the John W. Campbell Award-winning author of The Time Ships and Voyage, called by Time Out "the most credible heir to the hard SF tradition previously monopolized by Clarke and Asimov" - for a spectacular novel about nothing less than the transformation of humanity itself.

The Light of Other Days tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses the cutting edge of quantum physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times: around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. It amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy - forever. Then, as society reels, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. Nothing can prepare us for what this means. It is a fundamental change in the terms of the human condition. The Light of Days is the science-fiction event of the season...and a worthy addition to the shelf of Clarke's best work.