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The Light of Other Days tells the tale of what happens when a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses quantum physics to enable people everywhere to see one another at all times; around every corner, through every wall, into everyone's most private, hidden, and even intimate moments. This new technology amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy--forever.
Then, as men and women scramble to absorb this shock, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. Nothing can prepare us for what follows--the wholesale discovery of the truth about thousands of years of human history. Governments topple, religions fall, the entire edifice of human society is shaken to its roots. It is a fundamental change in the terms of the human condition...cause for despair, provocation for chaos, and--just maybe--opportunity for transcendence.
The Light of Other Days is a tour de force, an SF event for the millennium, and a story you will not soon forget.
Then, as men and women scramble to absorb this shock, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. Nothing can prepare us for what follows--the wholesale discovery of the truth about thousands of years of human history. Governments topple, religions fall, the entire edifice of human society is shaken to its roots. It is a fundamental change in the terms of the human condition...cause for despair, provocation for chaos, and--just maybe--opportunity for transcendence.
The Light of Other Days is a tour de force, an SF event for the millennium, and a story you will not soon forget.
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